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From: Pascal.Gienger@uni-konstanz.de (Pascal Gienger)
Subject: Re: Problems: EISA+1542; NE2000(PCI); onboard MACH-64
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Dave Humphreys <dave@datatone.co.uk> wrote:
: I am having several problems with installing FreeBSD on two separate
: machines.
Not good...
: Machine 1
: =========
[Adaptec driver panics after writing bootblock on sd0 on an EISA machine]
a) Perhaps the shared memory of your Adaptec is used by anyone else too?
Perhaps your BIOS needs this space anywhere?
b) Did you check if the DMA speed set in SCSI Select is ok? Remember, this
adaptec only uses ISA...
c) with how many MHz does your slot run?
: Machine 2
: =========
[PCI based NE2000]
I had just exactly the same problem with a customer. The solution was to
replace that card with an ISA based one(*)... NE2000 cards however are not
a good solution, neither ISA nor PCI. The lack of shared memory is a real
bad idea.
(*) and to turn OFF plug and play for this card with the configuration
program furnished by the manufacturer of that card. And don't forget
to set the IRQ of that card to "used by ISA" in your BIOS.
I would go (for 10Mbit/sec) with some sort of SMC 8216 card on ISA.
As for your graphics card and XFree86, I have no idea...
Pascal
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