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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!marcw.support.demon.net From: marcw@demon.net (Marc Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: adaptec 1542cp scsi controller Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 11:26:18 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Ltd Lines: 44 Message-ID: <825420379.11823@marcw.support.demon.net> References: <824306781.6609@marcw.support.demon.net> <63MFIwGoo$B@rimki.toppoint.de> Reply-To: marcw@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Host: marcw.support.demon.net X-NNTP-Posting-Host: marcw.support.demon.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de (Christoph Rimek) wrote: >Hello >In article <824306781.6609@marcw.support.demon.net>, marcw (marcw@demon.net) wrote: >> Problem: >> >> manage to do copy_kernel ok as part of initail installation, then >> when machine goes to reboot from hd system hangs at netbsd prompt. >> >> Using all of the hd for netbsd. >> >> Hardware: >> >> adaptec 1542cp scsi controller (isa) , fujitsu m1606sau scsi2 hdd. >> >> i suspect the adaptec controller, anyone managed to install >> successfully using the 1542cp specificly? >Recently I installed NetBSD on my computer at home, a standard PC with ISA >bus, an old Adaptec 1542B, all harddisks, the tape and CDROM drives are >SCSI devices, and 32MB RAM. >The system did not work: the ISA Adaptec 1542B is limited to 16MB RAM >(20 address lines only). Then I removed half of the memory and now it >runs perfectly. It was not a fault of the operating system but one of >the limited ISA hardware. >Maybe there were no problem with Adaptec's VLB adapters, but I am not >willing to spend any more money for this old non-PCI-non-Pentium system. >So, how much RAM do you have installed? >-cr >-- >Christoph Rimek, Kiel, Germany (+49 431 57601) chrimek@toppoint.de Hi, 8MB RAM. I managed to get hold of an apaptec 1542CF and this controller worked fine.