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From: philh@cdngateway.pe.ca (Phil Holmstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1/2.2SNAP and Triton II motherboards?
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 22:44:30 GMT
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mckinley@spss.com (Rob McKinley) wrote:


>I'm the proud owner of a Tyan Tomcat Pentium/PCI motherboard with the   
>Triton II chipset.  I've tried several installations of 2.1R and the May

>2.2SNAP and ended up with the same mess.  After a short period of time
>~2 hours of uptime, the filesystems get corrupted.  Usually, the first

>indications are load failures of programs that ran "just a few minutes

>ago", due to a bad signature of the C runtime shared lib.  If you   
>shutdown and reboot, the auto fsck bombs trying to put it all back   
>together.  It complains at boot about an unknown PCI bridge(?) id. It   
>does find the adaptec 2940 on the PCI bus and the CDROM and tape drive
>on the SCSI chain.  FreeBSD itself is installed on an IDE drive (wd0)
>and  /usr is hung off on another IDE drive. It's got 32 meg of memory on
>it, and the typical (Win95|WinNT|OS/2) all work fine...  Suggestions
>welcome.

>Rob

>P.S.  I'm getting good at the install program :-)

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