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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!yale!gumby!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!ucla-mic!pita!scott From: scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu (Scott Burris) Subject: Re: Julian's SCSI driver: no bootdrive found on reboot (SOLVED!) Message-ID: <scott.732833103@pita> Nntp-Posting-Host: pita.cns.ucla.edu References: <2066@hcshh.hcs.de> <CGD.93Mar19220437@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <2067@hcshh.hcs.de> Date: 22 Mar 93 12:51:30 PST Lines: 21 hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) writes: >Conclusion for me: avoid under all circumstances "option WD8013" in the >config file!!! I rememberd (and posted that to c.u.b a while ago) that i >locked up a machine using an "old" WD 8013 (jumper configurable) board >completely (could not boot from an IDE drive anymore !) - because i was >using "option WD8013" - i spent a lot time on that. I'm using the "option WD8013" sucessfully. The only strangeness is that on reboot, my STB WIND/X (S3 86C911) board acts weirdly. It looks like the character font has been trashed somehow -- about the bottom third of all characters are missing. I suspect this has something to do with the requirement that all boards within a certain address range have to be all 16 bit or all 8 bit, but I haven't looked into it yet. In any case, I seem to get about a 10% performance gain with this option. -- ---------- Scott Burris UCLA Campus Network Services cnetslb@oac.ucla.edu (310) 206-4860 - OR - scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu