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From: richard@alpine.alpine.net
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2840 - panics
Date: 6 Mar 1996 17:13:43 GMT
Organization: Sand and desert
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Message-ID: <4hkh47$sgg@tofu.alt.net>
References: <4geapf$9u@tofu.alt.net> <3130ABCA.5359@wcupa.edu>
Reply-To: richard@alpine.alpine.net
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In <3130ABCA.5359@wcupa.edu>, Peter Schwenk <pschwenk@wcupa.edu> writes:
>I am using a 2842 (a 2840 with a floppy port) without incident, without
>tape drives (one HD only).  Are you sure everything's okay
>with termination, etc?  Do you have the card in a bus-mastering enabled
>socket?  You don't need the BIOS enabled if you aren't using the card
>with a hard disk.  Are you sure you don't have any conflicts with the
>I/O addresses?

I'm sure the termination is ok, and tried the card in all VLB slots,
especially the bus-master slot.  I tried a few of the many (16?) I/O
addresses, with no change.  All the addresses are pretty high, anyway
(over $1000).  After giving up on the 2.1 CDROM drivers, I tried the
latest aic7770 drivers, with slightly different error messages.

One fellow suggested that I try different wait states, etc. on the
motherboard, but nothing changed....

Argh!  Thanks anyway for the reply.

-Richard
rhodges@alpine.alpine.net