Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 13:12:30 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org> To: Jeremy@cfs.purdue.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: P5 w/ Adaptec AHA-2940W SCSI card Message-ID: <199508162012.NAA25944@freefall.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Aug 95 14:32:33 EST." <9F9A220B3A@cfs.purdue.edu>
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> Greetings friends! > >Here's an interesting phenom that you may not have seen yet! >During the initial boot from floppy before installation (2.0 and >2.0.5) everything begins to boot alright, but immediately after the >phase the system panics with RAM parity error. Probable hardware >problem. I isolated the error to our Adaptec AHA-2940W SCSI card >(PCI) by removing it and booting with only a 1.44 3.5" floppy >installed. The install process then begins normally. The AHC0 >device is not even probed which I find odd since I was under the >impression that it was included in the generic kernal distribution. > Any hints/suggestions you may provide would be very helpful! >Thanks in advance! > -Jeremy Can you give me some info on the type of periferals on the 2940(W)? It may be that you are tickling a bug that was in the 2.0.5 driver, but has been corrected now. Does the adapter work okay under dos? Have you checked termination? Is the adapter in a bus mastering PCI slot? Just want to ensure that you don't have any strange problems with your configuration. > >---------------------------------------------------------- >Diclaimer goes here....etc... -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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