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#! rnews 1559 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!news-1.csn.net!ub!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!news.drexel.edu!data.wcupa.edu!crooow.wcupa.edu!usenet From: Peter Schwenk <pschwenk@wcupa.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Adaptec 2840 - panics Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 13:34:50 -0500 Organization: West Chester University Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3130ABCA.5359@wcupa.edu> References: <4geapf$9u@tofu.alt.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.26.15.163 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win95; I) I am using a 2842 (a 2840 with a floppy port) without incident, without tape drives (one HD only). Are you sure everything's okay with termination, etc? Do you have the card in a bus-mastering enabled socket? You don't need the BIOS enabled if you aren't using the card with a hard disk. Are you sure you don't have any conflicts with the I/O addresses? hodges@connectus.com wrote: > > Hey all! > > I just got an Adaptec 2840VL (local bus), and put it on my > 486DX4/100 for tape backup. Unfortunately, I keep getting > the error message "panic: ahcintr: AWAITING_MSG for an SCB > that does nothave a waiting message." There was no space > in "nothave" in case you were wondering... [deleted rest of message] -- - Peter Schwenk, Academic Computing, West Chester University of Pennsylvania - pschwenk@wcupa.edu