Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 21:26:35 -0700 From: "Jerry E. McGoveran" <jerry@certus.com> To: Andy Kennedy <st0658@student-mail.jsu.edu> Cc: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AHA2842 and Debian 2.0 kernal problems Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980907212635.00963620@value.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980907230107.8957A-100000@student-mail.jsu.e du> References: <3.0.5.32.19980907154302.00957bc0@value.net>
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At 11:09 PM 9/7/98 -0500, Andy Kennedy wrote: > > >On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > >> I'm having no luck at all installing the Debian 2.0 Linux distribution >> on my 486 PC. The system is 100% SCSI. I've removed all extra cards >> except for the serial/floppy controller and the video card so I don't >> believe there are any conflicts. I've also disconnected all SCSI >> devices except the boot drive. > >I had a similar problem once before. I had serious confilcts with CUA0 >and CUA1. Because of the CRAPPY Award BIOS that I was using, I was unable >to run the 2940UW on that board without doing some real major overhauling >(rebuilt the flash BIOS). > >Is the 2842 a PNP card? If it is, you might want to try to disable all >the ports on your board and make sure that your floppy is _NOT_ in >conflict with whatever the PNP on your board is trying to setup your >card as. My MB has AMI BIOS vintage 1994. And the floppy controller on the SCSI card is disabled. I don't think it's PNP since that was a Win95 era phenom, and the AHA284x and VLB predates it. I figure either there are some settings in the scsi BIOS that need to be changed, or I need a boot param and/or new kernal. So far, I've been unable to find any documentation that would help. -Jerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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