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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5/EISA/AHA1740 not finding drives
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 23:13:47 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Bernard Steiner <bs@Germany.EU.net>
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Bernard Steiner wrote:
> The controller locks up whenever I read anything larger than, say, 8k from the
> disk in one go. This is sort of inconvenient for just about anything,

Judging by your description of the symptoms, this is almost certainly
some hardware breakage or misconfiguration somewhere.  I assume that the
termination details have already been verified as correct?
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project