Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 15:53:57 +0000 (GMT) From: jake@ibmPCUG.CO.UK To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: jake@ibmPCUG.CO.UK, moto@cs.cmu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: AHA2940 working?? Message-ID: <9502231554.aa14422@kate.ibmpcug.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199502230842.AAA27344@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Feb 23, 95 00:42:48 am
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> >Well actually after 6 boots I got tired and decided to type kernel.old
> >and that booted! It does seem to be something like an old car. I have
> >to keep power cycling and once it's started, any amount of reboots can be take
> >n
> >safely until a power down.. then the hanging/constant-LED arises again.
> >
> It really sounds like the driver is relying on some value in scratch
> ram to be setup that isn't valid. Do you have your BIOS turned on??
> can I get your BIOS and card revision numbers?
The new kernel with the latest changes doesn't want to boot at all.
I have gone back to the 950210.
I have the bios enabled. v1.10
the card is:
FAB 566507-00 Rev F
Two main chips of note:
AHA 2940
586900-01 B
9448
and
Adaptec Inc
589201-00 D
BIOS 8200
8 1994
Thanks,
Jake Dias
PC User Group, UK
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