From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 30 18:12:41 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA09859 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 18:12:41 -0800 Received: from maroon.tc.umn.edu (root@maroon.tc.umn.edu [128.101.118.21]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA09853 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 18:12:39 -0800 Received: from x65-102.co.net by maroon.tc.umn.edu; Thu, 30 Mar 95 20:12:25 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 20:12:10 CST From: "Craig M. Jones" Message-Id: <82882.cmjones@maroon.tc.umn.edu> X-Minuet-Version: Minuet1.0_Beta_17A X-POPMail-Charset: English To: gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 950322-SNAP adaptec AHA-2940 pci card Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>Hi >>I have been using FreeBSD 1.51 for a long time now & am very impressed with >>FreeBSD. It has been working as our network server very nicely. >>Thanks to all the people working on it! >> >>Now for the problem. >>I am installing 950322-SNAP on pentium 90 pci with an adaptec 2940 scsi >>controller. The boot floppies finds the card & I can install all the way to >>the reboot from hard disk. While rebooting it hangs on waiting for scsi >>devices to settle. I then booted the fixit disk, which booted ok. I can >>mount & use the hard drive with this disk. I tried to lower the bus speed >>as somone else on the list suggested from 10MHZ to 5MHZ no luck. >> >>Any sugestions? >> >>Craig Jones >>Univ. of Minnesota >>cmjones@wolf.co.net > >Do you have any devices (my guess would be a network adaptor since the drivers >for them are not in the boot floppy's kernel) that have a conflicting interrupt? >I didn't have shared interrupts working properly in the 294x driver for the >322 SNAP, but will shortly, so I'm hoping this is your problem. If not, please >drop me a line. This was the clue I needed. I removed my pci ethernet card (SMC8432BT) then it booted. Now comes the strange part. I changed the order the cards are plugged into the pci bus & it worked! I used the Etherport to ftp the rest of the installation & it seems to be working fine. I do not understand this but it worked. Thanks ! Craig Jones Univ of Minn.