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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Need help with AHA-2940
Date: 10 Jul 1996 23:56:13 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <4s0vpf$snh@gde.GDEsystems.COM>,
Timothy P. Sparks <sparkstp@gde.GDEsystems.COM> wrote:
>
>Well I have a generic motherboard with the Triton II chipset, Genuine Intel, 
>and Award BIOS and I still can't get the dang thing(AHA-2940UW) to load the 
>system....even with the 2.2 snap. Oh sure, it boots the boot floppy and lets 
>me go through the entire install menu. But do a "commit" and the system gives 
>an error message or Panics and then rolls over and dies. Is there some 
>specific configuration that I need to set up on the SCSI card? Something I 
>need to disable or enable?

Please post the exact message. Also, if you're not already doing this,
do Alt-F2 to view the debug output - this might give a few clues.

>I've seen a few comments here about "disabling the cache". Is this referring 
>to the cache on the motherboard? 

Yes. Sometimes these are set over-optimistically at the factory and
using a less aggressive setting (or even turning it off completely)
can sort things. As a general rule, FreeBSD will demand more from your
hardware than DOS/Windows ever did.

>Do I need to try this?

Might as well - you've got nothing to lose :-)

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/