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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help - 386 & AHA-1542B ? Date: 14 Apr 1997 21:28:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5iu7i7$26m@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5irs14$6fe$1@phoenix.kfu.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39142 nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) wrote: > 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'm even using a 1540A, does this also count? :-) Make sure to run it at 5 MB/s DMA speed. That's a jumper option on the 1540A/B. Make also sure the ISA ain't clocked at a wrong rate, it must be ~ 8 MHz. -- 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. ;-)