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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!uunet!in2.uu.net!204.147.226.2!quack!quack.kfu.com!nsayer From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help - 386 & AHA-1542B ? Date: 19 Apr 1997 23:04:52 GMT Organization: The Duck Pond public unix - http://www.kfu.com/ Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5jbj2k$jfj$1@phoenix.kfu.com> References: <5irs14$6fe$1@phoenix.kfu.com> <5iu7i7$26m@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: quack.kfu.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39366 From the responses, it does appear as though I am about the only one in the world with any problem with this card. :-( This MB has no cache, aparently. Or at least no way to disable it. I went a bit further in analysing the failure. It still panics during the install. I tried using a different DMA channel, de-turboing, moving the card to a different slot. No help. It still panics with some disk-related problem, and when I reboot, go into an emergency shell (from the install floppy, the kernel on the disk is unbootable) and try to fsck, it's as if a 3 year old scribbled nonsense all over the place. One time fsck even dumped core! So _clearly_ DMA just is not working properly between this SCSI board and the motherboard. The card is jumpered for 5.0 MB/s DMA, there appears to be no way to change the board's ISA clock that I could find. This board was running FreeBSD last week with an IDE drive just fine. *shrug* My friend is going to get a cheap IDE disk from a friend, but I am bummed that I couldn't make this combination work. -- Nick Sayer http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ | Anita Hill then, Paula Jones now. nsayer [at] quack [dot] kfu [dot] com | UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL IS UNACCEPTABLE | What goes around, comes around. AND WILL BE CONSIDERED AS HARASSMENT |