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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help - 386 & AHA-1542B ?
Date: 14 Apr 1997 10:12:12 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5irs14$6fe$1@phoenix.kfu.com>,
nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes:
> Just tried to install 2.2.1 for a friend. He has a cable modem that
> only gives him 1 IP address, so I was going to take some cheap
> hardware and make a NAT box for him.
>
> Using 2.2.1-RELEASE boot floppy from 'newer' directory.
>
> 386DX-25 w/8M of RAM.
> VGA mono cheap card
> 2 3C509Bs, only one of them in use during install, of course
> AHA-1542B
>
> Took care to insure that all the hw was configured not to step on each
> other, PNP disabled on the Ethernet cards, etc.
>
> It would make it various percentages through loading bin, then it
> would panic with some indication of disk corruption. Either 'dir bad'
> or 'freeing free block' or some such.
>
> This same hardware was working just fine at a friend of mine's house who
> was using it for an ISDN router (he upgraded the hardware on his so that
> his FreeBSD machine could do more work for him). The only difference was
> that there he was using an IDE drive and controller, and had only one
> 3c509 card (but only one was active during the install).
>
> I suspect that the 1542B DMA was overtaxing the motherboard, but another
> possibility is that the 1542B has problems under FreeBSD. Is anyone
> using this (old) card successfully?
I used to, but eventually the card died. I'd be very surprised if there
were any problems with this card. Perhaps one of the SIMMs in the box
is bad ? You could try disabling the cache too.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !