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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Buslogic BT747 (anyone using?)
Date: 25 Oct 1994 07:25:50 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: hcubed@news.delphi.com's message of 24 Oct 1994 23:21:16 -0000
In article <38hfhc$gav@news.delphi.com> hcubed@news.delphi.com (HCUBED@DELPHI.COM) writes:
This sounds almost exactly like my problem, and configuration (except I'm
using a 486/66, and installed freebsd 1.1.5.1), but I havea 1.8 GB drive,
and I have a lot of disk activity going on. Then the machine just decides
to reboot, with no crash file saved to disk, or any indication on why the
system decided to reboot. Maybe it has something to do with the EISA
bus, since noone else seems to be having the problem?
I really don't know what it is, but as I told the other guy (thru
private e-mail), I've run a bt747s on two different EISA machines with
no problems at all like this. I've been running them both under
NetBSD-current.
The first machine is an ALR (Advanced Logic Research) 386DX33 EISA-bus
machine which I absolutely abused in every imaginable way, and it
never once did anything bad to me. I have incredible respect for this
machine. The second is a NICE Super-EISA motherboard with an AMD
486DX2/80 CPU, 256k write-back cache, and lots of other goodies. I
have had no problems with this system either (though I did have to
turn off memory parity checking to get the cache to run in write-back
mode with the bt747s -- haven't seen a single problem with that,
though).
Both systems were running various version of NetBSD-current. I am
using two Quantum drives on the controller (a LPS PD540s, and a
PD425s). I've had two Conner IDE drives in my machine for the longest
time with great results, but have never had a Conner SCSI drive
connected to my machine.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com michaelv@iastate.edu
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
Working NetBSD ports: 386+PC, Mac, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4c, PC532
In progress: DEC pmax (MIPS R2k/3k), VAX, Sun4m
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