From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 13 05:03:12 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id FAA00687 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 05:03:12 -0800 Received: from wcarchive.cdrom.com (wcarchive.cdrom.com [192.216.191.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA00677 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 05:03:08 -0800 Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by wcarchive.cdrom.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA19215 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 03:54:16 -0800 Received: from g386bsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05032; Mon, 13 Feb 95 12:53:51 +0100 Received: by g386bsd.first.gmd.de (MAA03876); Mon, 13 Feb 1995 12:55:31 +0100 From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199502131155.MAA03876@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: My iozone results To: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 12:55:30 +0059 (MET) Cc: gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU, hasty@netcom.com, FreeBSD-hackers@wcarchive.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199502130326.TAA02806@netcom14.netcom.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr" at Feb 12, 95 07:26:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2011 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >Do you have any more info on your instability problems? Is it stable > Nope, and I am seriously thinking about taking the 2842 back. > I think it has problems. Went to DOS to play a little DESCENT, > when I booted back to FreeBSD failed to detect my scsi hard drives. > I managed to eventually get the scsi drives to be detected by > switching the drives on/off. When I have my smc ethernet installed > the adapter and my Actix S3 864 have serious problems like the > wrong colors show up at boot time. I did manage to boot > correctly once when I tried to use my ethernet card I got > and instant crash. This happened several times. Now, > the story of the 2842 timing during heavy disk drive activities > is a different and it could be due to the 2842's device > driver. BTW: I did try different to have my ethernet at > different maddr. For me the 2842 works fine, kernel build of Feb 6. I have replaced my 1542CF with a 2842A at Dec 21 and no problems seen regarding the 2842. But i have seen problems on another local bus motherboard that is working ok with a 1542. I tried to replace the 1542 with a 2825 local bus controller and the machine simply hangs in the BIOS. Don't know if it is the board or the adaptec BIOS :-). The machine is a cyrix 486DX. The 2825 board works fine in another motherboard ( EISA/VL ) with an intel 486DX. I have only seen some timeouts with a 2742T controller with the ahc driver, but i have not looked into them, because this is on my test machine, where i test bad SCSI disks :-). So i need first find out, if the driver has some problems or the disks. Anyone remember the good old seagate ST296N ? :-). seagate told that this is really a SCSI drive, so no one believed that. It sounds like an ST506 or RLL drive, it is slower than a ST506 so it can't be SCSI :-). ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe