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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!nntp.uac.net!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.new-york.net!ritz.mordor.com!ritz From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Re: 2.1/2.2SNAP and Triton II motherboards? X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Lines: 45 Organization: Mordor International Message-ID: <Ds8LD0.CCo@ritz.mordor.com> References: <31ade421.1055104@news.spss.com> Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 21:07:47 GMT Rob McKinley (mckinley@spss.com) wrote: : : 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. I'd suspect either the Adaptec card or the driver. I built 3 BSDI 2.1 machines the other day with the following: Tyan 1562 motherboard P166 512k pipeline burst cache 128mb RAM dual Buslogic 956C fast-wide controllers 4 4gig fast/wide Seagate barracudas (2 on each controller) Toshiba 3501 quad-speed CD-ROM The machines run like a champ. I've also tested them with Buslogic 946C controllers (narrow scsi) and narrow 4gig cudas without incident. A friend of mine is going to lend me his FreeBSD 2.1R cd over the weekend so I'll install it on one of the dual wide bus machines if I have time and see how it works. I may even test the system with a Cyrix P166+ cpu if I can recycle it in one of the play machines when I'm done. I'll be curious to see how long the install takes. My guess for a full install is about 10 mins. :-) Cheers, Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@mordor.com | finger/mail info@ritz.mordor.com OR Mordor International | http://www.mordor.com/ 201/212/718 internet access | Modem: (201)433-7343,(212)843-3451