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From: bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: EISA experiences?
Message-ID: <C9yM7o.4uy@obiwan.uucp>
Date: 10 Jul 93 17:35:34 GMT
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In article <21f1t9$r3c@pandora.sdsu.edu> mrh@io.nosc.mil (Mike Halderman) writes:
>How many people are using EISA systems for 386bsd? Is the EISA worth the
>extra expense when buying a new system? Any proplems to watch out for?
I just converted obiwan from ISA to EISA and moved from ESIX 5.3.2D to
386bsd on it (I had already been running 386bsd on a couple of other
systems for awhile). I seem to have a couple of problems that may be
related to the hardware:
1. Warm boot does not work. On my ISA based systems the reboot command
or halt followed by any key will successfully reboot them. With
obiwan (the EISA system) I must press the reset button or power off/
power on cycle it (from DOS the usual Ctl-Alt-Del sequence works).
2. I also installed an AHA-1740A as part of the upgrade and I now
seem to be having some too frequent though not precisely
reproducible problems with my SCSI drives (I have 4: DEC DSP3105,
Toshiba M438FB, Micropolis 1588-15, and a Maxtor LXT-213SY).
I have spent the past couple of days swapping cables, terminators,
and adjusting relative positions of my drives. Latest change
was to move the DEC SCSI drive further from a Micropolis ESDI
drive (use to be just above it). Don't know if that was the
problem, but so far its been running for about 12 hours without
another failure.
Overall, however, I am quite satisfied with the setup. Sure don't
know if it was worth it or not in terms of cost (it cost me about
$250 more for the MB and adapter above what I would have had to
pay for an equivalent ISA setup).
>
>Thanks,
>Mike Halderman
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