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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Anyone can explain these warnings ? Date: 5 Aug 1994 14:24:30 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 43 Message-ID: <31ti2u$78h@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <wgalazka.176.2E4221D2@chem.uw.edu.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 Keywords: FreeBSD In article <wgalazka.176.2E4221D2@chem.uw.edu.pl>, Wojciech Galazka <wgalazka@chem.uw.edu.pl> wrote: >Hi all, >I have just installed FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 on my machine but.. >during installation I got several warnings > >When the kernel boots with many other information about >device drivers I got >"sea: board type unknown at address 0xf000c8000" >Didn't it like my VGA BIOS? :) That's a message from the Seagate driver. It didn't find one. >Just when begin installation the system was unable to find a label of the >harddrive and printed >wd0: "Cannot find label (no disk label) " That's because you haven't stuck a label on the disk (yet). >Every time during copying distribution sets from high density disketees >from a: I got >"fd0: readl failed ST0 70 <abnmrl seek_cmplt_equ_chek> cyl 0" >but the copying process goes well I think this is a 'bug/feature' of the floppy disk driver, but I'm not the expert on the floppy driver by any means. >Once I got the message >"NMI port 61 60 port 70 ff port 461 60 >the previous warning no more apeeared anymore. This is a *hardware* problem. Either your memory is bad (likely), or you have a bus-mastering DMA controller that can't go fast enough due to a slow bus speed. If you bus is running > 6Mhz, the you have bad memory. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.