From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 6 07:40:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA05589 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 07:40:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unicorn.uk1.vbc.net (unicorn.uk1.vbc.net [204.137.194.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA05580 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 07:40:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gordon@localhost) by unicorn.uk1.vbc.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA00372; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 15:40:21 +0100 Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 15:40:20 +0100 (BST) From: Gordon Henderson X-Sender: gordon@unicorn To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Anyone using Adaptec 2940 & ASUS '486 boards? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It's probably not a specific FreeBSD question - but I'm trying to get FreeBSD going on this combination. I have an ASUS '486 motherboard with an AMD 486DX4/100 processor, Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI card and a bunch of disks. If I use an Adaptec ISA card (not sure what type, it's quite old though) then it works a treat, if I plug in the PCI card then I get varying degrees of success (or failure). Most of the time, during an install it will hang in the newfs stage. The same hardware combination & memory in an ASUS P120 board works fine. Anyone have any other problems with ASUS 486 mainboards? Are they just crap or what? I've tried 2 486 mainboards, both with similar retults, but pluging in an ISA SCSI card or using the P120 board is fine. Gordon