From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 11 01:01:25 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA13261 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 01:01:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA12924 Mon, 11 Dec 1995 00:54:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA02049; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 09:50:46 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA19888; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 09:50:46 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA11868; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 09:44:17 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512110844.JAA11868@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Adaptec 2842 VLB SCSI & XFree86? To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 09:44:16 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Jake Hamby" at Dec 10, 95 03:32:19 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)