Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 18:17:19 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: "Craig M. Jones" <cmjones@maroon.tc.umn.edu> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 950322-SNAP adaptec AHA-2940 pci card Message-ID: <199503310217.SAA00794@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 1995 20:12:10 CST." <82882.cmjones@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
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>>>Hi >>>I have been using FreeBSD 1.51 for a long time now & am very impressed with >>>FreeBSD. It has been working as our network server very nicely. >>>Thanks to all the people working on it! >>> >>>Now for the problem. >>>I am installing 950322-SNAP on pentium 90 pci with an adaptec 2940 scsi >>>controller. The boot floppies finds the card & I can install all the way to >>>the reboot from hard disk. While rebooting it hangs on waiting for scsi >>>devices to settle. I then booted the fixit disk, which booted ok. I can >>>mount & use the hard drive with this disk. I tried to lower the bus speed >>>as somone else on the list suggested from 10MHZ to 5MHZ no luck. >>> >>>Any sugestions? >>> >>>Craig Jones >>>Univ. of Minnesota >>>cmjones@wolf.co.net >> >>Do you have any devices (my guess would be a network adaptor since the driver >s >>for them are not in the boot floppy's kernel) that have a conflicting interru >pt? >>I didn't have shared interrupts working properly in the 294x driver for the >>322 SNAP, but will shortly, so I'm hoping this is your problem. If not, plea >se >>drop me a line. > > > This was the clue I needed. I removed my pci ethernet card (SMC8432BT) >then it booted. Now comes the strange part. I changed the order the cards >are plugged into the pci bus & it worked! I used the Etherport to ftp the >rest of the installation & it seems to be working fine. >I do not understand this but it worked. Something with the way that your BIOS assigns interrupts I guess. > >Thanks ! > >Craig Jones Univ of Minn. > Glad to hear that it is working for you. I'm trying to compile a list of SCSI periferals that are working with the driver. Can you send me a list of what you are running so I can add them in? Thanks, -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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