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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!newshub.nosc.mil!nosc!pegasus!richard From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Subject: Re: AHA1542 hanging with FreeBSD 1.1beta References: <Co3MBA.s3@pegasus.com> Organization: Pegasus Information Systems Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 11:20:35 GMT Message-ID: <CoAsut.8K@pegasus.com> Lines: 27 >I have a 486/66 with an AHA1542CF SCSI card that locks up about >once a day with the disk activity light on. > >Does this sound familiar to anyone? > >The system sees a lot of disk activity and the lockups don't seem >to be caused by any one particular program. I've tried various >speed settings, etc., too no avail. > >Do I need to buy some other type of card? A new motherboard? > I got a helpful email response explaining that this controller allocates a buffer at the top of 16Megs which gets in the way if you have 16Megs of RAM, and consequently causes lockups. My systems has 16Megs. Telling the BIOS that you have 15Megs is supposed to fix the problem. Problem is my BIOS (AMI) doesn't seem to want to let me change that parameter. What's the proper way to tell FreeBSD not to use the last meg? Thanks Richard