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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!inXS.uu.net!ott.istar!istar.net!news.citenet.net!usenet From: philh@cdngateway.pe.ca (Phil Holmstrom) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1/2.2SNAP and Triton II motherboards? Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 22:44:30 GMT Organization: Canadiana Gateway Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4s0tgd$3hr@cti01.citenet.net> References: <31ade421.1055104@news.spss.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.151.204.75 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 mckinley@spss.com (Rob McKinley) 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. >Rob >P.S. I'm getting good at the install program :-) >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Rob McKinley ! Interim Release: > SPSS Inc. ! A programmer's feeble attempt at repentance. > 312-329-3661 ! > mckinley@spss.com ! >--------------------------------------------------------------------------