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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!alm
From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
Subject: Re: Endless boot cycle- suggestions?
Message-ID: <3l!nmtm.alm@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 11:04:26 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
References: <Aug.14.12.34.42.1992.8037@action.rutgers.edu> <45240001@hpycla.kobe.hp.com> <Aug.18.17.41.42.1992.4915@action.rutgers.edu>
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In article <Aug.18.17.41.42.1992.4915@action.rutgers.edu> armhold@action.rutgers.edu (George Armhold) writes:
>Actually I have the Adaptec ACB-2322B card controlling an ESDI drive.
>The ESDI was pulled from a Sun "shoebox" disk/tape drive.
>Unfortunatly I have no alternate drive controller to test it out on.
>:-(
>
>To anyone else who is keeping score- I also tried the patched kernels
>in the unofficial/newbootables directory to no avail. I'm still
>awaiting suggestions...
How about folk medicine? I found that my graphics and I/O cards
were interfering with my disk controller (1542B). The solution was
to stuff the graphics card in an 8-bit slot until the installation
was complete...
-Andrew Moore <alm@netcom.com>