From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 12:02:48 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA28708 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 12:02:48 -0700 Received: from csc.com (explorer.csc.com [20.1.10.27]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA28699 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 12:02:33 -0700 Received: by csc.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0sQftX-000iFwC; Tue, 27 Jun 95 15:01 EDT Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 15:01:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Stefan Vanrafelghem To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 486DX2 FreeBSD boot.flp problems (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Thanks Ted!!! I checked, and indeed the Future Domain controller does not have "Bus master" capability... I would rather not fork out another couple hundred dollars on a new controller... Can anyone tell me for sure if FreeBSD requires Bus master... or if there is some other work around/patch. Regards, Stefan J. Van Rafelghem svanrafe@csc.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 20:51:34 -0400 From: Edward F. Knight To: Stefan Vanrafelghem Subject: Re: 486DX2 FreeBSD boot.flp problems > >This is my second posting concerning this problem. Thanks to those of you >who responded to my first message, and got me a little farther along in >trouble-shooting this. > >Unfortunately, I still cannot get my PC to boot up from the boot.flp floppy. >I gave the floppy to a friend, to try on his PC, and it worked fine! >So I guess it's not the floppy. "WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY PC?!?!" > >I started taking the PC apart last night just to get more familiar with it, >so I thought I'd post some of the information about it here, in case anyone >sees any obvious problems. > >It's a 486DX2 with 16 meg of RAM > BIOS is AMI-BIOS (dated 6/6/92) > AMI=American Megatrends Inc. > >It has a Future Domain SCSI controller, which seems to be controlling: > > one floppy drive > two hard drives > (1 Conner 1.4G and 1 Maxtor 240Meg) > one double speed CD-ROM. > >It also has a "Stealth 32" video card. > >I don't know who manufactured the mother-board, but several of the chips >have "OPTi" labelled on them... (please excuse my ignorance.) > >If anyone knows of any problems with any of these devices please let me know. > > >Thanks, > >Stefan J. Van Rafelghem >svanrafe@csc.com > > >I think the problem is the future domain card. I don't know for sure. I believe I read somewhere that FreeBSD required a scsi card that had bus master capabilities and the future domain does not ( they did not in the past). Check this out. If you need to get another scsi card I recomend an Adaptec 1542CF. Ted Knight