Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 21:36:14 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-2842A troubles Message-ID: <199712240336.VAA29382@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> of "Tue, 23 Dec 1997 18:48:48 PST." <19971223184848.54856@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
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John-Mark Gurney writes: > > have you tried to pull the 2940 out of the machine, and just kept the > 2842 in it?? Oh yes! Stripped the machine down to its $28 Trident PCI video card and the 2842 to no avail. Machine has been running fine with the 2842 installed but not active. Also has a 21040 ethernet card installed but not active. Am running an NE2000 clone until I figure out why my de0 goes deaf, but that's another story. Probably should have mentioned my cheap MB is featured in http://users.aol.com/sdnd/vip.htm, an amazing work of useful info for an otherwise unamazing mass produced generic cheap MB. Mine is the last revision, 3.4, with (4) 72-pin SIMMs. This web page metions some defect in the UMC 8881 or 8886 chipset and VL and graphics boards. Don't think I can complain much about this cheap MB if it flat out doesn't do Adaptec 2842's, it was $116 for 5x86/133 CPU and 256k of cache (in addition to 256k of WRITE BACK CACHE on the MB, bogus) and has been running 24 hours/day now for 15 months. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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