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From: rpk@niagara.edu (Richard P. Kernin)
Subject: Buslogic 747S pt. II
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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 21:36:00 GMT
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Hello again,

Well, now I'm really baffled.  From the suggestions of many kind people
who read this news group I disabled all cache on my 486/33 EISA machine,
and I configured the Buslogic 747S to the following settings:

Port: 330h	Int 11 Edge	0dc000h
No DMA		Burst Enabled	ID=7
Parity Enabled	< 1GB Disk	Sync. Neg. Disabled
Max. Sync. Data Rate Allowed 10MB/SEC.
Floppy - Primary floppy

I booted from the NetBSD-1.0BETA diskettes, like last time, and it seemed
to go pretty good.  Then after having done a disklabel it begin populating
the filesystem with files, and while doing this the screen went blank, and
the machine rebooted... :-(

Here are some machine specs.  This is my first real stab at EISA, and honestly
I kinda feel sick... ;-)  My ISA *BSD machines have run over 2 years w/o
problem... plus the "CF" utility on a 3 1/2" floppy takes forever whenever
you have to change something.

Swan 486/33E (Anigma EISA 486 System)
Weitek Co-Processor			Not Installed
ISA VGA/EGA Video Adapter		Not Installed
System BIOS				Non-Cacheable (default)
Base Memory				Not Cacheable
Extended Memory				19MB Extended, Non-Cacheable
Bus Master Time Out NMI			Disabled (default)
Fail Safe Timer NMI			Disabled (default)
Software I/O Port NMI			Disabled (default)

Award Modular BIOS v4.28 ROM, 80486DX, 1984-1992 Award Software Inc.
Buslogic ROM v3.37.

The hard drive is a Seagate ST12550N 2GB Barracuda drive, with a
2GB root partition, and a 100MB swap partition (made it basic to
start until I could get the system up and running).

There is a mono-Hercules video card, with a LPT2: port that shows up, 
and a SMC/Western Digital EtherCard PLUS Elite 16 NIC configured as
follows:

280h-29fh	Port
2/9		IRQ
D0000h-d3fffh
ROM disabled
RJ-45/10BaseT Ethernet

When the kernel boots it states "aui" for the NIC, could this be a problem
since there is only an AUI and 10BaseT connector, while the docs. tend to
suggest looking for a thinnet port?  Yes, I know, grasping at straws... ;-)

Any/all suggestions appreciated!

Take care,

-Rich

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Richard P. Kernin
Niagara University - Administrative Computer Center

Internet: rpk@niagara.edu	or	visnurpk@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu