From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 26 11:23:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA09555 for current-outgoing; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:23:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sysiphos (Sysiphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA09544 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:23:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sysiphos id AA13356 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for current@freebsd.org); Mon, 26 Feb 1996 20:23:02 +0100 Message-Id: <199602261923.AA13356@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 20:23:02 +0100 In-Reply-To: "David Langford" , "David Langford" "Re: Problem with current (and stable) with TYAN MB" (Feb 26, 9:06) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: "David Langford" , "David Langford" Subject: Re: Problem with current (and stable) with TYAN MB Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Feb 26, 9:06, "David Langford" wrote: } Subject: Re: Problem with current (and stable) with TYAN MB } True I did not know what all to include in my first attempt at looking for } information to the problem. Hmm, Ok, but there is some information on the minimum contents of a problem report somewhere in the docs. (Don't ask me where, didn't need it for quite some time :) } This system was working on and intel Neptune board and another version of the Tyan motherboard. After a couple of exchanges with Tyan of the mother board } (and BIOS revisions) to correct what looked like a problem with spontaneous } reboots (in both BSD and Win95) we arrived witht the current motherboard. } Again the system works very well with Win95 - in fact I havent seen Win95 } (at least this Win95 ) run this good before. } We tried swapping an IDE (boot drive is sd0 normally) drive in with Stable } on it and the same thing occurs. } } We have tried different COAST (cache ram) modules and as I said before both } the standard Award BIOS and MR BIOS. Doesn't look like Cache/RAM or BIOS problem. } Here is config file: } (note no ep0 - learned that as soon as new ep driver was placed into current) } machine "i386" } cpu "I386_CPU" } cpu "I486_CPU" Hmmm, there is NO cpu "I586_CPU" line. Does you current kernel contain it ??? } ident PUGA } maxusers 24 } config kernel root on sd0 } options "COMPAT_43" } options SYSVSHM } options SYSVSEM } options SYSVMSG } options UCONSOLE } options SCSIDEBUG } options SCSI_REPORT_GEOMETRY } controller isa0 } options "AUTO_EOI_2" This doesn't work with all chip sets, so I'd not try it unless the system worked without, first ... } options BOUNCE_BUFFERS Not needed unless you got a bus-master ISA controller (Adaptec 1542 or ISA Buslogic). } device sc0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 1 vector scintr } options HARDFONTS } options MAXCONS=4 } device npx0 at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr } controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr } disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0 } disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1 } controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 vector wdintr } disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 } disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 } controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr } disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 } disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1 } device lpt0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 vector lptintr } device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty irq 4 vector siointr } device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 vector siointr } device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM3" tty irq 5 vector siointr } controller pci0 } controller ahc1 Ok. You didn't tell about your hardware, but I assume the SCSI card is detected and all drives are identified ... } device vx0 } options PROBE_VERBOSE The PROBE_VERBOSE is a NOP, since this functionality is now handled by the -v boot option ... } options COMPAT_LINUX Ok. Please tri with I586_CPU and let me know what you find ... Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se