From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 23 08:37:17 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA06272 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 08:37:17 -0800 Received: from ibmPCUG.CO.UK (mmdf@DNS0.IBMPCUG.CO.UK [192.68.174.71]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA06265 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 08:37:12 -0800 From: jake@ibmPCUG.CO.UK Received: from kate.ibmpcug.co.uk by alice.ibmPCUG.CO.UK id ac23926; 23 Feb 95 15:54 GMT Subject: Re: AHA2940 working?? To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 15:53:57 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jake@ibmPCUG.CO.UK, moto@cs.cmu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199502230842.AAA27344@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Feb 23, 95 00:42:48 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL2] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 824 Message-ID: <9502231554.aa14422@kate.ibmpcug.co.uk> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >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