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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!decwrl!hal.com!olivea!sgigate.sgi.com!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: adaptec 1542CF controller errors? Date: 25 Jan 1994 01:24:27 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 34 Message-ID: <2i1scb$ol5@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <Pine.3.89.9401241755.A2210-0100000@calvin.chin.doc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <Pine.3.89.9401241755.A2210-0100000@calvin.chin.doc.ca>, William Maton <wmaton@calvin.chin.doc.ca> wrote: > >Hi > > I am attempting to install FreeBSD-1.0 on my system. When I >boot the kcopy-ah floppy, throw the filesystem floppy in, I get the >following error displayed on the screen (paraphrasing from memory): > >aha0 cmd/data buffer full > >and then the machine seems to hang. I have checked termination, memory >mappings, irq, and dma and can find no errors on the hardware end. I >have the adaptec 1542CF terminated, with a toshiba 1.2GB drive at the >other end and the CD-ROM NEC3xi in the middle. > Oddly enough, this only happens when the BIOS is enabled. If I >shut down the adaptec's BIOS, then the floppy boots normally and ends >with installation go-ahead question. Make sure all extended features of the 1542CF are disabled. The new driver that will be in 1.1 automatically turns off all the extended features, so this won't be necessary for the next release. (Things are moving very rapidly towards the next release, lots of new/fun stuff going to be in the next release. :-) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.