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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!crcnews.unl.edu!obiwan From: obiwan@engrs.unl.edu (Marc Lombardo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: panic: EISA I/O error Date: 8 Oct 1996 04:24:02 GMT Organization: College of Engineering & Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lines: 47 Message-ID: <53cl12$8sb@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <52pd36$nmd@crcnis3.unl.edu> <32510792.2781E494@mindspring.com> <5365i9$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: engrss2.unl.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) wrote: : > >If this is FBSD 2.1.5, I could not install it on an Adaptec 1742, its : > >broke. : > >Did work for FBSD 2.01R though. : > : > 215R does work for my Adaptec 1740 (floppy less) without any problems. : He forgot to mention which mainboard/machine he is using. : There's a known incompatibility of FreeBSD 2.1.5's EISA code with the : HP Netserver's internal AHA2740 (its EISA slot number is too high). : FreeBSD 2.1 didn't suffer from this since it simply didn't have any : specific controller code for EISA buses at all, but handled everything : there as plain ISA. I'm using a 386sx unsure of the motherboard manufacturer, 1989 AMI bios (not translating bios), and a Seagate ST31276A hard drive... the HD came with a software overlay that allowed users with older bioses (like myself) to use the full 1275MB capacity of the drive. In the installation instructions it said that for "other operating systems" you needed to format the drive with "bios standard" format in order for other operating systems to work with the software overlay (seagate calls this a DDO, Dynamic Disk Overlay). I formatted the drive with bios standard format, but still got the panic!: EISA I/O error. I gave up on freebsd (just assumed I wasn't going to figure it out) and tried out a mini-linux distribution (at least its SOMETHING), but it didn't like my setup either. It complained about my drive having more than 16 heads and said it was probably due to a unrecognized sector translation (which I assume is the seagate drive overlay). I'd love to get freebsd up and running. I'm desperate for something besides dos to work with. I would really appreciate any ideas/suggestions on how to get past this. If you need specs on the motherboard let me know, I'll open her up again and get exacts... thanks -- marc "no, i can't see tomorrow. when i close my eyes, ... there is no tomorrow. my kingdom's of no...use. of no...use." 242