From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 22 11:12:26 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA01078 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 May 1995 11:12:26 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA01071 for ; Mon, 22 May 1995 11:12:21 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA05304; Mon, 22 May 1995 11:12:00 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199505221812.LAA05304@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Diagnostics for a hanging machine? To: mmead@Glock.COM (matthew c. mead) Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 11:12:00 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505221635.MAA09559@Glock.COM> from "matthew c. mead" at May 22, 95 12:35:50 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: 1159 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On Mon, May 22, 1995 at 11:36:44 (-0400), Charles M. Hannum wrote: > > > Could you describe the hardware configuration of the machine? Also, > > what release of NetBSD were you using? > > The hardware configuration of the machine is as follows: 486dx2/66 > Intel CPU, EISA motherboard (not sure of maker, can check if it's helpful), > 16M ram, BusTek 742a SCSI controller (shows up as aha), 639M Maxtor SCSI I ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Though running the BusLogic/BusTek 742a with the aha driver does work, it is marginal at best. You should be using the bt742.c driver!! This is probably why you have seen problems on both NetBSD and FreeBSD with this system. Convert to using the bt742 driver (should actually be automatic in FreeBSD, unless perhaps you have your bt742 set to 1542 emulation mode). > drive, standard vga type video card, NE2000 Clone ethernet card. > > We were running NetBSD pre-1.0. It was like a week prior to 1.0 > for NetBSD. > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD