From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 28 12:02:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17490 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:02:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17393 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:01:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA26446; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:59:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:59:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Terry Rowe cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: failed kernel install: 2.2.6 In-Reply-To: <35B94B47.2C45289E@shaw.wave.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Terry Rowe wrote: > After letting SCSI devices settle, I got "impossible mbxi status" and a > reboot. > > I tried "everything" but still had the problem. Tech Support @ Walnut > Creek suggested that the SCSI adaptor (Adaptec AHA-1540B) was faulty or > I needed a rom upgrade for it. > > It turns out that I had optimistically set the adaptor's DMA transfer > speed to 8 MB/sec (the choices are 8, 6.7, 5.7, 5.0). 5.0 works! But > all the others give problems. > > My config: 486DX2/66 with an i/o bus speed of 33/4=8 MHz > > Perhaps someone could add this to some Knowledge Database so someone > else in my situation will be spared the anguish. The mail archives will take care of that. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message