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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!solace!news.stealth.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!visint.demon.co.uk From: Steve Roome <Greystar@gids-games.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1.5R and 2.2-SNAP Panics - AHA1542CP? Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 12:04:13 +0100 Organization: Vision Interactive / Gid's Games Lines: 49 Message-ID: <326F4D2D.41C67EA6@gids-games.com> References: <326D29C5.41C67EA6@gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: visint.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: visint.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > I suspect the AHA1542 board may be involved. I > would appreciate hearing from any experts as to how > this card should be configured. I had been leaving > the BIOS enabled, and booting as BIOS drive 1 > "1:(sd(0,a)". The system I am running (or trying to run) sounds like it has the same problem, as far as I can tell the 1542 board I have (ISA, are they all ISA??) just gives me grief.. I got it working in a 486dx2-66, but sufferred numerous page missing page faults.. (Turns out most of these were my main system memory was actually dead =( ) After sorting out the memory I completely lost the page missing stuff for a while, but it's still there any time I try to use /usr. (???) I thought this might be a hardware conflict somewhere, so I've changed every jumper setting/toggle switch on the card and checked everything else. didn't help.. Eventually I stuck the card and scsi in another machine, and as far as I can tell the 1542 card just wont work in anything else now. (at least not on a pentium motherboard?) This could mean I have a broken scsi card, but I think more likely is that the aha driver doesn't support the exact card I have. My suggested solution (it's what I'm doing) is to buy a Adaptec 2940 (or 3940 if you can afford it) instead. Sorry I can't actually be of much help, but it might be worth knowing that there is someone else who has had similar problems. Good Luck Anyway: Steve. P.S. I've tried EVERY BIOS configuration I can get to boot and anything which boots just doesn't seem to work.. although I could have missed something I suppose ? --------------------------------------------------------- Steve Roome. +44 (0) 976 241 342 Greystar@gids-games.com ---------------------------------------------------------