From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 25 05:26:37 1995 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA10002 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 05:26:37 -0700 Received: from id.slip.bcm.tmc.edu (root@hou19.onramp.net [199.1.137.147]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA09997 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 05:26:34 -0700 Received: (from rich@localhost) by id.slip.bcm.tmc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id HAA00453; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 07:25:08 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 07:25:08 -0500 From: Rich Murphey Message-Id: <199509251225.HAA00453@id.slip.bcm.tmc.edu> To: tony@thing.sunquest.com CC: hardware@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <9509221907.AA02407@thing.sunquest.com> (message from Tony Jones on Fri, 22 Sep 1995 12:07:34 -0700) Subject: Re: anybody using a WANGDAT TB3100 Reply-to: rich@lamprey.utmb.edu Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk |From: Tony Jones |I've been offered a WANGDAT TB3100 SCSI tapedrive (2gb uncompressed) at a |good price. The 3100 has works great for me. Some of the newer HP and Conor dat drives have more features and higher throughput though at the same list price. Rich From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 28 17:19:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA09765 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 17:19:20 -0700 Received: from value.net (unibrow@value.net [204.188.125.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA09754 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 17:19:17 -0700 Received: (from unibrow@localhost) by value.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id RAA06669 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 17:23:35 -0700 From: Don Littlefield Message-Id: <199509290023.RAA06669@value.net> Subject: Minimum hardware for a bridge... To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 17:23:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 525 Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I was thinking of building a bridge using a 386 Dx25. It only has to be a minimal system.. Currently I just have the motherboard, and old ATI VGA 512k video board, and a WD8000e network card.. I need a disk drive, memory and thats about it...oh, and a case :) So I was thinking about: 420 meg HD 4 megs ram and thats about it... The main system is my current 486 dx2 66 machine which is also running freebsd. Does anyone have any insights/advice on using a 386 with my proposed config? Thanks, Don Littlefield II From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 28 18:20:50 1995 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA12131 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 18:20:50 -0700 Received: from gateway.us.sidwell.edu (gateway.us.sidwell.edu [198.3.254.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA12123 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 18:20:44 -0700 Received: (from rwatson@localhost) by gateway.us.sidwell.edu (8.6.12/8.6.10) id VAA19773; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 21:20:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 21:20:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: rwatson@gateway.us.sidwell.edu To: Don Littlefield cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minimum hardware for a bridge... In-Reply-To: <199509290023.RAA06669@value.net> Message-ID: Organization: The Sidwell Friends School MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk We used a 386dx33 with 4 megs of ram to route between 3 ethernets and a slip line for quite a while (the upgrade to 8 megs made a big difference each time we added another card though). Thiese were SMC Elite Ultra BNC cards -- althoug our ethernt wasn't very active, it performed nicely (we had about 20 workstations running netscape to access the server on a different ethernet) -- we pulled routing at abou 400k per second fts and so on (kbytes not kbits). I was very very impressed -- just don't plan to get much interactive use out of the system. Also, try getting 8 instead of 4 -- it'll make a big difference if you have config changes and kernel compiles to do. I haven't tried routing on anythnig less than a dx33, so who knows how the 25 will perform. If it's just slip/ppp to ethernet, it'll do great. On Thu, 28 Sep 1995, Don Littlefield wrote: > I was thinking of building a bridge using a 386 Dx25. It only has to be > a minimal system.. Currently I just have the motherboard, and old ATI VGA > 512k video board, and a WD8000e network card.. I need a disk drive, memory > and thats about it...oh, and a case :) > > So I was thinking about: > > 420 meg HD > 4 megs ram > > and thats about it... > > The main system is my current 486 dx2 66 machine which is also running > freebsd. > > Does anyone have any insights/advice on using a 386 with my proposed config? > > Thanks, Don Littlefield II > Robert Watson (rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu) IDS/CS Double Major School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University SMC 1605 / P.O. Box 2888 / Pittsburgh, PA 15230-2888 // (412) 862-3197 From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 28 18:21:32 1995 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA12177 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 18:21:32 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA12168 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 18:21:29 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA15722; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 18:21:16 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199509290121.SAA15722@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Minimum hardware for a bridge... To: unibrow@value.net (Don Littlefield) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 18:21:15 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509290023.RAA06669@value.net> from "Don Littlefield" at Sep 28, 95 05:23:35 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 724 Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk a bridge for what? if it's a slip/pp/ethernet bridge then I think you've overspec'd.. build a MFS floppy with the right stuff on it and run off that.. :) > > I was thinking of building a bridge using a 386 Dx25. It only has to be > a minimal system.. Currently I just have the motherboard, and old ATI VGA > 512k video board, and a WD8000e network card.. I need a disk drive, memory > and thats about it...oh, and a case :) > > So I was thinking about: > > 420 meg HD > 4 megs ram > > and thats about it... > > The main system is my current 486 dx2 66 machine which is also running > freebsd. > > Does anyone have any insights/advice on using a 386 with my proposed config? > > Thanks, Don Littlefield II > From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Sep 29 12:31:00 1995 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA28196 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 12:31:00 -0700 Received: from apollo.hq.nasa.gov (apollo.hq.nasa.gov [131.182.121.87]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA28191 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 12:30:58 -0700 Received: from wirehead.hq.nasa.gov (wirehead.hq.nasa.gov [131.182.121.88]) by apollo.hq.nasa.gov (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA10868; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 19:32:16 GMT From: Chris Shenton Received: (cshenton@localhost) by wirehead.hq.nasa.gov (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA17786; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 19:32:15 GMT Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 19:32:15 GMT Message-Id: <199509291932.TAA17786@wirehead.hq.nasa.gov> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc cc: hardware@freebsd.org, newell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov, cshenton@apollo.hq.nasa.gov Subject: Install -- SCSI geometry incorrect (was OK before!) Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I've been running FreeBSD (-stable) OK off a 350MB wd disk with another filesystem on a 1GB scsi. Recent attempts to rebuild the system (from -current) indicated my / partition was too small so I'm loading the 950726 SNAP. I repartitioned the wd ok, but when I try to repartition the sd it tells me that the geometry is incorrect and to use the G(eometry) menu to fix it manually; for some reason it seems to think the disk has three heads or something. I tried the specs listed in www.seagate.com (2700 cyls / 9 heads / 84 sec/trk) but again the install:parition fails on incorrect geometry. I think maybe I trashed something, so use the AHA controller's diagnostic boot menu to format the drive. After an 30 minutes or so formatting, I try again. And again, geometry error on the parameters which format apparantly put on the drive (oops, didn't write them down)-:. Any ideas here, and how to recover? Thanks. From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Sep 29 12:50:44 1995 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA29245 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 12:50:44 -0700 Received: from aslan.cdrom.com (aslan.cdrom.com [192.216.223.142]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA29222 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 12:50:38 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA24765; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 12:50:14 -0700 Message-Id: <199509291950.MAA24765@aslan.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: aslan.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Chris Shenton cc: hardware@freebsd.org, newell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov Subject: Re: Install -- SCSI geometry incorrect (was OK before!) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Sep 1995 19:32:15 GMT." <199509291932.TAA17786@wirehead.hq.nasa.gov> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 12:50:13 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >I've been running FreeBSD (-stable) OK off a 350MB wd disk with >another filesystem on a 1GB scsi. Recent attempts to rebuild the >system (from -current) indicated my / partition was too small so I'm >loading the 950726 SNAP. > >I repartitioned the wd ok, but when I try to repartition the sd it >tells me that the geometry is incorrect and to use the G(eometry) menu >to fix it manually; for some reason it seems to think the disk has >three heads or something. > >I tried the specs listed in www.seagate.com (2700 cyls / 9 heads / 84 sec/trk) >but again the install:parition fails on incorrect geometry. > >I think maybe I trashed something, so use the AHA controller's >diagnostic boot menu to format the drive. After an 30 minutes or so >formatting, I try again. And again, geometry error on the parameters >which format apparantly put on the drive (oops, didn't write them >down)-:. > >Any ideas here, and how to recover? > >Thanks. You should use the Adaptec translated geometry for the disc: (64 heads, 32 sectors/track, #MB on the drive cylinders) standard, (255,63, #MB/7) if you have extended translation enabled. The best way to make this happen is to make a small dos partition on the disk that you can either leave or blow away during the FreeBSD install. FreeBSD will pull the proper geometry out of the DOS partion so you don't have to enter it manually. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations =========================================== From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Sep 30 18:44:35 1995 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA25660 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 18:44:35 -0700 Received: from anvil.gatech.edu (root@anvil.gatech.edu [130.207.165.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA25636 ; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 18:44:24 -0700 Received: from acmez.gatech.edu (gt4722a@acmez.gatech.edu [130.207.165.24]) by anvil.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA10647; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 21:44:16 -0400 From: gt4722a@prism.gatech.edu (Brian "AGENT GORDON COLE" Atkins) Received: (gt4722a@localhost) by acmez.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA06135; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 21:44:14 -0400 Message-Id: <199510010144.VAA06135@acmez.gatech.edu> Subject: Need help with ASUS P55TP4XE & noname NCR card To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 21:44:14 -2800 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 492 Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I put together my new computer today, but it is hanging when it starts up at the point where it loads the NCR bios. All drives are properly terminated, and everything works great without the NCR810 card in there. The card's docs say it needs irq9 to work, but the Award bios on the MB won't let me set that stuff for the PCI slots. Anyone else had this problem? The card came mail ordered from IDER, and I could have sworn that I heard someone else mention they got their NCR card from them?