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From: brown@eff.org (Dan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Buslogic 445 probs?
Date: 26 Mar 1996 18:11:33 -0800
Organization: Subversive Student Publications un-inc.
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In an earlier posting E.J.Randall.bra0126@x400gw.icl.co.uk writes:
>Dan Brown (brown@eff.org) wrote:
>: [ chop ]
>: FWIW, here's a few of the messages logged during boot.
>
>: Mar 25 19:17:12 xxx /kernel: fd1: 1.2MB 5.25in
>: Mar 25 19:17:12 xxx /kernel: bt0: Bt445S/ 0-ISA(24bit) bus
>: Mar 25 19:17:12 xxx /kernel: bt0: Your board should report a 32bit bus archite
>: cture type..
>: Mar 25 19:17:12 xxx /kernel: bt0: The firmware on your board may have a proble
>: m with over
>: Mar 25 19:17:12 xxx /kernel: bt0: 16MBytes memory handling with this driver.
>: [chop]
>
>The 445 is a VLB card - is this "Your board should report a 32bit ..." message
>not a bit of a giveaway ? Check that the card is correctly seated in the
>VLB slot, and that the motherboard isn't bending slightly in the middle
>making the contacts a bit dodgy.
This is likely _another_ problem, as the previous one went away after
adjusting the shadow ram and cache options.
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