From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 11:10:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA23871 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:10:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.220]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA23864; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:10:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA00435; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:10:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:10:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Darius Moos cc: freebsd-hackers , FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Problem: AHA-2940 and Floppy-controler = no bootup In-Reply-To: <3225CFA6.55DE@degnet.baynet.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Darius Moos wrote: > have to ask this for a friend. > Here we go: > Hardware: > - SOYO-Pentium-mainboard > - Adaptec 2940 without floppy-connector > - IO-card with floppy-controller > Symptoms: > - When booting with the above hardware, the memory gets checked > by the BIOS correctly and then when the Adaptec is in turn, > the bootup-process just stops before the Adaptec gets active > to scan the SCSI-devices and the machine hangs. > - the happens with a different floppy-controller. > - when taking any floppy-controller out of the machine, the > BIOS-bootup gets to the Adaptec, the Adaptec installs his BIOS > without problems and the machine runs fine. > Question: > - Anyone else had similar problems and knows a solution or a > workaround ? Disable the floppy controller on the I/O card and use the one built into the motherboard, or vice versa. Both are enabled and they are conflicting. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major