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From: ejr@dickens.bra01.icl.co.uk (Ed Randall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Buslogic 445 probs?
Date: 26 Mar 1996 13:50:27 GMT
Organization: ICL, Bracknell, UK
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Dan Brown (brown@eff.org) wrote:
: [ chop ]
: FWIW, here's a few of the messages logged during boot. 

: Mar 25 19:17:12 xxx /kernel: fd1: 1.2MB 5.25in
: Mar 25 19:17:12 xxx /kernel: bt0: Bt445S/ 0-ISA(24bit) bus
: Mar 25 19:17:12 xxx /kernel: bt0: Your board should report a 32bit bus archite
: cture type..
: Mar 25 19:17:12 xxx /kernel: bt0: The firmware on your board may have a proble
: m with over
: Mar 25 19:17:12 xxx /kernel: bt0: 16MBytes memory handling with this driver.
: [chop]

The 445 is a VLB card - is this "Your board should report a 32bit ..." message
not a bit of a giveaway ?  Check that the card is correctly seated in the 
VLB slot, and that the motherboard isn't bending slightly in the middle
making the contacts a bit dodgy.


Ed