From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 12 19:51:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA02018 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 19:51:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nexgen.ampr.org (max12-76.HiWAAY.net [206.104.16.76]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA02000; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 19:50:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by nexgen.ampr.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id VAA07011; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 21:30:59 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.4-prerelease [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <31E564ED.5E13@oester.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 21:20:20 -0500 (CDT) Organization: Amateur Radio N4HHE, Madison, AL. From: David Kelly To: rich@oester.com Subject: RE: adaptec 154X support Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org, "G.R.Gircys" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 18:32:45 "G.R.Gircys" wrote: >have a fine ole dx2/66 board with adaptec 1542B (older style with >jumpers) - worked flawlessly with bsdi for 2 years - now moving to >freebsd and find that during 2.1 install (usually while copying floppy >resident files) system either hangs or panics (virt screen 2 messages >about scsi bus locked). > >so i try a newer card - 1542 C/CF series - works great. > >does freebsd support the older adaptec 154X A/B? in my caseseems the >answer is no. Have you fiddled with bus timing on the Adaptec cards? Along the same lines I have a 486DX33 that has worked fairly well with SCSI for several years. Until the first of the year. It started trashing files that were not being written to. Tried BIOS settings. Tried the Adaptec 1542CF settings. Tried another 1542CF, disk drives, UltraStor 14F, even finally got desparate and tried MS-DOS. More or less the same with everything, while everyting worked on other systems. Decided the MB was broken. Pulled the SCSI card and its current uptime is about 75 days now. I hate PC's. Wish it would break good and proper so I could put it out of my misery. That box really nees a P166 in it, but then I might feel like the 640x480 256k VGA card would need to be replaced... :-) -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@tomcat1.tbe.com, dkelly@hiwaay.net =============================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.