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Date:      Sat, 29 Jul 1995 10:01:38 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Brad Midgley <junkmail@pht.com>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.0.5-950622-SNAP on a big machine
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.950729095306.12809A-100000@exodus.pht.com>
In-Reply-To: <199507281929.MAA02136@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>

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> If the card worked fine with a previous release of FreeBSD let us assume
> for the time being we do not have a bt946 hardware problem and let us
> not touch that piece of hardware for fear of introducing an unknown into
> the equation.

unfortunately, there is a new thing in the equation.  The smc net card
wouldn't work, so I popped it out, put in a 3com, and now it works.  The
system is running now so I don't dare to poke it.  We've been running
about 24 hours with only one (intentional) reboot so it would see the high
32m (yay)

> Check that you have the IRQ of the ed0 device assigned to the ISA bus
> in the PCI P-n-P configuration menu of the BIOS setup for you machine.

yes, both the 3com and smc I had set to irq5, which is reserved for isa in
pnp.  As long as the 3com code is pretty solid now, I'm happy to leave it. 
I think it's time to just cross my fingers.

some asides:

we do have an a2940w, but the external connector on it isn't the standard 
"mini-50" it looks more like a "mini-68".  Do you know if I can just get 
an adapter cable for my external (non-wide) chain?

do scsi devices on a second controller just show up as [r]sd7-[r]sd13??
(ie, same major device number, just incrementing the minor number?) How 
does the machine decide which controller is first?

where can I find documentation on /sbin/dset and the kernel -q option?

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(rejoining the list) looks good guys.  It's nice to tune in again.



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