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From: robsch@robkaos.ping.de (Robert Schien)
Subject: NetBSD 1.0: DMA beyond end of ISA
Message-ID: <1994Nov13.124044.1226@robkaos.ping.de>
Organization: Private Site, Essen, Germany
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Date: Sun, 13 Nov 1994 12:40:44 GMT
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A few days ago I tried NetBSD 1.0 on the Syqest (SCSI version) 
drive of my system: 
VLB 486DX50, 20 MB RAM, Conner CP3544 IDE hard drive,
 AHA 1542C, Syquest 270, NEC SCSI-2 CDROM, Archive 2525
 tape drive.
I disabled the Conner in the PC-BIOS (Award), so that
the Syqest became the only 'hard' drive.
Now I have these problems:

1) During unpacking the base10.* distribution I got LOTS
   of 'Text file busy' messages. I know that this is
   correct, if you try to overwrite a binary 
   which is just executing, but it happened for
   programs whoch weren't running.
   I used the following command for unpacking and installing:
   cat /usr/installdir/base10.* | gunzip | tar xvf -

2) I tried to mount my CD-ROM drive with the command:
   mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0d /cdrom
   I goot the message: Read-Only-Filesystem, but nothing 
   was mounted.

3) I tried to access my tape drive: tar tvf /dev/rst0.
   Result: DMA beyond end of ISA.

Installing (via floppies) went ok on the Syqest drive.
I installed the kernel, the system booted, all with
no problem.

All my hardware works without any problems under FreeBSD 1.1.5.1,
MSDOG (Arg!) and ESIX 4.0.4.1 (SYSVR4).

Have I overlooked something?
BTW, where is the FORTRAN which was promised in the INSTALL file?

Regards...Robert