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From: troyc@tekgen.bv.tek.com (Troy Curtiss)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: BT445C == No FreeBSD???
Date: 6 Aug 1994 04:27:34 -0700
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR, USA
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With regards to my earlier problem, I have narrowed it down a little,
but something is still wrong.  I've found that <sometimes> (indicating
an intermittent or unstable situation) I can make it thru the ISA
probe session, and get on to the install.  The only time things start to
act up then is at the end of the install questions where the box actually
goes out and writes the partition info on the disk.  Before my SCSI
controller loses sd0, I always get an 'ISA strayint b' error.  From then
on out, I get error messages like 'sd0(aha0:0:0): timed out', which makes
me think that something in the BT445 driver is causing either itself or the
controller card itself to lose its mind.  When I do a halt after breaking
out of the install, I hit return to soft-boot, and BIOS comes up OK, but
the SCSI controller BIOS doesn't [this leads me even further to believe
that something is poking the BT445C in a sensitive spot] come up at all
and the system hangs.  I even power-cycled the hard drive itself whilest
getting the timeout errors, but that didn't help.  SCSI terminations are just
fine, interrupts are all nice and non-conflictory, and all of the fancy
bios settings in both the AMI bios and the SCSI bios have been turned off
for safety's sake... but to no avail.  I hope this isn't going to require
a new driver patch...  Any help would be much appreciated.  Thanks again.

Troy Curtiss