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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.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!theos.com!riscan.riscan.com!van.istar!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!aurora.cs.athabascau.ca!sgigate.sgi.com!nntp.coast.net!news.dacom.co.kr!bofh.dot!usenet.seri.re.kr!bofh.dot!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!news.fc.net!obiwan!bob From: bob@luke.pmr.com (Bob Willcox) Subject: Re: 2.1/2.2SNAP and Triton II motherboards? Sender: bob@obiwan.pmr.com (Bob Willcox) Organization: Bob's Place, Austin TX Message-ID: <Ds965y.4Jp@obiwan.pmr.com> References: <31ade421.1055104@news.spss.com> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: luke.pmr.com Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 04:37:10 GMT Lines: 41 In article <31ade421.1055104@news.spss.com>, 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 have been running 2.2-current (upgraded to the latest level of -current a couple of times per week) on an ASUS Triton II motherboard for a couple of months w/o any problems (certainly no filesystem corruption). Note that this is a SCSI only system (as far as disks go). I know, not much help to you, but I thought it might be a useful data point. > >Rob > >P.S. I'm getting good at the install program :-) I'll bet :-( -- Bob Willcox bob@luke.pmr.com Austin, TX