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From: mckinley@spss.com (Rob McKinley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: 2.1/2.2SNAP and Triton II motherboards?
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 18:12:12 GMT
Organization: SPSS Inc.
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I'm the proud owner of a Tyan Tomcat Pentium/PCI motherboard with the   
Triton II chipset.  I've tried several installations of 2.1R and the May

2.2SNAP and ended up with the same mess.  After a short period of time
~2 hours of uptime, the filesystems get corrupted.  Usually, the first

indications are load failures of programs that ran "just a few minutes

ago", due to a bad signature of the C runtime shared lib.  If you   
shutdown and reboot, the auto fsck bombs trying to put it all back   
together.  It complains at boot about an unknown PCI bridge(?) id. It   
does find the adaptec 2940 on the PCI bus and the CDROM and tape drive
on the SCSI chain.  FreeBSD itself is installed on an IDE drive (wd0)
and  /usr is hung off on another IDE drive. It's got 32 meg of memory on
it, and the typical (Win95|WinNT|OS/2) all work fine...  Suggestions
welcome.

Rob

P.S.  I'm getting good at the install program :-)

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