From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 23 19:39:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA06166 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 19:39:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA06151; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 19:39:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-61.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.61]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id VAA13422; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 21:36:16 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA29382; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 21:36:14 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199712240336.VAA29382@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-2842A troubles In-reply-to: Message from John-Mark Gurney of "Tue, 23 Dec 1997 18:48:48 PST." <19971223184848.54856@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 21:36:14 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.