Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 23:49:41 +0200 From: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NCR 810 fatal errors during install. (desperate plea) Message-ID: <19970812234941.17949@mi.uni-koeln.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970812173123.19368B-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il>; from Nadav Eiron on Tue, Aug 12, 1997 at 05:33:53PM %2B0300 References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970812173123.19368B-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il>
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On Aug 12, Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> wrote: > I've already tried the following on questions and scsi to no avail. Since Hmmm, had not seen it before ... > We have here a DECpc XL 590 (it used to be a 466, but got upgraded > recently). This machine has a Nepture chipset, built-in NCR 53C810, 32MB RAM > and a DE435 ethernet card. Wasn't the neptun buggy and known to fail if used with multiple bus-master cards ? (Please try to boot with both caches disabled and let me know, whether you see the same problem.) > On the SCSI bus I have: > ID 0 - Quantum LPS340S (340MB disk). > ID 1 - HP C3323-300 (1GB disk). > ID 5 - Toshiba XM-4101TA (2x CD). > > All are recognized correctly during boot (both disks work at 10MB/sec). > Both 2.2.2-RELEASE and 2.2-090801-RELENG installs give the following > shortly after starting writing to the disks (either during newfs-ing them > or while copying): > > ncr0:0: ERROR (20:0) (8-28-0) (8/13) @ (e18:18000140). The 20 indicates the BF flag (bus fault) is set in the DSTAT interrupt cause register. This means, that a PCI bus transaction failed. > This machine used to work fine (without the HP disk though) when it had a > 486 CPU under Win95 and NT, BTW. > > Can anyone make sense of that? Well, I guess there are chip-set features enabled, that do not really work with your revision of that chip set, and Win-NT may run because it just overrides the BIOS settings and disables some performance options ... But this is just a guess ... Regards, STefan
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