From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 10 06:54:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA13890 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 06:54:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pancake.remcomp.fr (pancake.remcomp.fr [194.51.30.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA13838 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 06:53:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zapata.omnix.fr.org (zapata [128.127.10.1]) by zapata.omnix.fr.org (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA12509; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 13:59:18 +0200 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 13:59:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: didier@omnix.fr.org To: Gordon Henderson cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone using Adaptec 2940 & ASUS '486 boards? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -- Didier Derny | My computer is Microsoft Free... didier@omnix.fr.org | FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE site I'm using an ASUS PVI486-SP3 mother board with a 5x86, and Adaptec 2940 board without any problem. I've a bios 1.10 on the adaptec board according to the AMD datasheet the 486-100 and the 5x86 are quite similar On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > It's probably not a specific FreeBSD question - but I'm trying to get > FreeBSD going on this combination. I have an ASUS '486 motherboard with > an AMD 486DX4/100 processor, Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI card and a bunch of > disks. If I use an Adaptec ISA card (not sure what type, it's quite old > though) then it works a treat, if I plug in the PCI card then I get > varying degrees of success (or failure). Most of the time, during an > install it will hang in the newfs stage. > > The same hardware combination & memory in an ASUS P120 board works fine. > > Anyone have any other problems with ASUS 486 mainboards? Are they just > crap or what? I've tried 2 486 mainboards, both with similar retults, but > pluging in an ISA SCSI card or using the P120 board is fine. > > Gordon >