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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:12119 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3066 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!library.ucla.edu!psgrain!news.tek.com!news.bv.tek.com!news.bv.tek.com!not-for-mail From: troyc@tekgen.bv.tek.com (Troy Curtiss) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: BT445C == No FreeBSD??? Date: 6 Aug 1994 04:27:34 -0700 Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR, USA Lines: 22 Message-ID: <31vs36$qgv@tekgen.bv.tek.com> References: <31vk03$mdk@tekgen.bv.tek.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tekgen.bv.tek.com With regards to my earlier problem, I have narrowed it down a little, but something is still wrong. I've found that <sometimes> (indicating an intermittent or unstable situation) I can make it thru the ISA probe session, and get on to the install. The only time things start to act up then is at the end of the install questions where the box actually goes out and writes the partition info on the disk. Before my SCSI controller loses sd0, I always get an 'ISA strayint b' error. From then on out, I get error messages like 'sd0(aha0:0:0): timed out', which makes me think that something in the BT445 driver is causing either itself or the controller card itself to lose its mind. When I do a halt after breaking out of the install, I hit return to soft-boot, and BIOS comes up OK, but the SCSI controller BIOS doesn't [this leads me even further to believe that something is poking the BT445C in a sensitive spot] come up at all and the system hangs. I even power-cycled the hard drive itself whilest getting the timeout errors, but that didn't help. SCSI terminations are just fine, interrupts are all nice and non-conflictory, and all of the fancy bios settings in both the AMI bios and the SCSI bios have been turned off for safety's sake... but to no avail. I hope this isn't going to require a new driver patch... Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks again. Troy Curtiss