Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 01:30:47 +0000 () From: Brian Litzinger <brian@mediacity.com> To: Jeremy@cfs.purdue.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: P5/2940W panics system Message-ID: <199508170130.BAA05851@easy4.easynet.com> In-Reply-To: <9F9A220B3A@cfs.purdue.edu> from "W. Jeremy Nauck" at Aug 16, 95 02:32:33 pm
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> 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. > -Jeremy I found a similar problem with a board using the adaptec 7850 single chip SCSI. (I believe the 2940W uses 7870 technology) Turning off the motherboard memory parity checking cured the problem, though I later ran into other problems. Brian Litzinger brian@easynet.com
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