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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.5R and 2.2-SNAP Panics - AHA1542CP?
Date: 25 Oct 1996 21:54:54 GMT
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Steve Roome <Greystar@gids-games.com> wrote:

> 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.

The driver does support your card.  Either, your card is really dead,
or all the machines you've been testing had chipsets that didn't grok
busmasters (but that admittedly sounds odd).  Btw., the aha driver
works fairly stable.

Have you tried turning off the cache?  Most busmaster problems are
cache-related.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)