From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu May 23 11:38:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA07988 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 11:38:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from okjunc.junction.net (root@okjunc.junction.net [199.166.227.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA07981; Thu, 23 May 1996 11:38:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sidhe.memra.com (sidhe.memra.com [199.166.227.105]) by okjunc.junction.net (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id KAA00693; Thu, 23 May 1996 10:53:52 -0700 Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 11:36:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Dillon To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD: SCSI hangs, panics and other failures as nntp server In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: Memra Software Inc. - Internet consulting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 23 May 1996, Chris Linstruth wrote: > We have built several different machines based on the AHA-1542, > NCR83C510, and the most recent being an AHA-2940 (AIC7870). > > We have been unable to build a system that does not suffer > from: Then maybe it's not the SCSI host adapter. Try a different network card, maybe a 3COM 3C509 or 3C590. On other OSes (SCO UNIX) I have solved wierd SCSI problems by switching from Adaptec to Buslogic. > Random Reboots This could be incorrect configuration of BIOS motherboard options. Pore carefully through the motherboard manual and make sure all the settings make sense and unused stuff like IDE is disabled. If it's an ASUS board there is a newsgroup you can check into alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus Make sure that any IRQ's used by ISA devices are reserved in the BIOS so the PCI system doesn't try to use them. > (A project for today includes recompiling a kernel with the appropriate > debug options available, so that info should be available soon.) > aha0 not found at 0x330 > aic0 not found at 0x340 > nca0 not found at 0x1f88 > nca1 not found at 0x350 > sea0 not found Might be a good idea to remove all those uneeded device drivers while you are at it. Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com