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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: reboot beeps
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> >
> >I installed a three days old kernel today - maybe one shouldn't do, eh?
> >Anyway,  it costs me a drive to the campus at present when I
> >type 
> >
> >sync ; reboot
> >
> >since it hangs with a black screen and beeps. This machine has been one
> >of my most reliably remotely rebootable machines for over a year. I
> >understand that there were changes in the keyboard reset code (delays etc.)
> >but that it has to be broken so miserably...
> >
> >I added a second WD8013 card though but I can't imagine that being the
> >culprit.
> 
>    The new 16bit ethernet card is probably interfering with the 8bit BIOS ROM
> that is on the VGA card. I have a workaround in the driver for this, but
> perhaps there is a case that doesn't work right.

After reading your comment I also tend to think the problem is 
introduced by the second WD card. Here is a dmesg excerpt:

ed0 at 0x280-0x29f irq 5 maddr 0xd8000 msize 16384 on isa
ed0: address 00:00:c0:xx:xx:xx, type SMC8216/SMC8216C (16 bit) 
ed1 at 0x200-0x21f irq 11 maddr 0xc0000 msize 8192 on isa
ed1: address 00:00:c0:xx:xx:xx, type WD8003EP (8 bit) 

I don't understand that it's recognized as a 8003. It's
definitely a 8013 (a very early one, though). I'll have a look
at the board later today.

> 
> -DG
> 
> David Greenman
> Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de