From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 23 18:50:46 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA19268 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 18:50:46 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA19242 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 18:50:20 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA03834; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 11:12:51 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510240142.LAA03834@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 486-GIO-VT MB with built-in VL-IDE adapter To: john@starfire.mn.org Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 11:12:51 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199510231631.LAA01109@starfire.mn.org> from "john@starfire.mn.org" at Oct 23, 95 11:31:28 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1131 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk john@starfire.mn.org stands accused of saying: > > Does anyone have any experience with this main board? When I bring up > the system, it runs for awhile, and then hangs, always with the disk > light on. The IDE and floppy adapter is set up as a local bus device, > and I haven't worked with VL local bus before, so I may be doing something > which would be obviously wrong to the more experienced integrator. I > have tried it with internal and external cache turned off and turbo > disabled, to no avail. If it's an option, turn off "IDE readahead" or "IDE prefetch" in the BIOS. I've met an SIS chipset recently that exhibited these symptoms. (It was an ASUS PCI board, but it's worth a try 8) > John Lind, Starfire Consulting Services -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[