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Date:      Mon, 11 Dec 1995 09:44:16 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adaptec 2842 VLB SCSI & XFree86?
Message-ID:  <199512110844.JAA11868@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951210032416.723A-100000@localhost> from "Jake Hamby" at Dec 10, 95 03:32:19 am

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As Jake Hamby wrote:
> 
> I finally managed to get all three of my VLB cards properly seated [...]
> [...]  The problem, however, 
> is that with the SCSI controller installed, XFree86 consistently and 
> repeatedly FREEZES SOLID which means that I can't properly shut down the 
> system (since I can't switch back to a console) so I just have to hit the 
> reset switch...  Sheesh...

Replace the third card (that all-singing, all-dancing multi-IO
controller) by a stock ISA one.  The VLB does only allow for two
cards; the capacitive load with three cards is too high.

:-(

(For 40 MHz, only one card is allowed.  For 50 MHz, only zero cards
are allowed.)
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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