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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!news.sojourn.com!condor.ic.net!news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!news.dacom.co.kr!arclight.uoregon.edu!nntp.primenet.com!newspump.sol.net!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: Ron Bolin <rlb@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1.5R, adaptec 1542, install problems Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 20:36:00 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 17 Message-ID: <32336670.41C67EA6@mindspring.com> References: <50pd1o$7rj@web.ddp.state.me.us> <50r1i8$ja1@symiserver2.symantec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: user-168-121-25-139.dialup.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 9 Sep 1996 00:34:58 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) tedm@agora.rdrop.com wrote: > > In <50pd1o$7rj@web.ddp.state.me.us>, isdmill@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us (David Miller) writes: > >I'm having odd problems trying to install 2.1.5R on a 486 clone with an > >adaptec 1542[b|c]. The symptom is the system simply halting, usually with > >the activity led on solid indicating a scsi problem. > > If the 486 is an AST machine, I know from first hand experience that it will not work. I had to use a BusLogic ISA SCSI controller instead of the 1542CF. -Ron -- **************************************************************************** Ron Bolin rlb@mindspring.com, http://www.mindspring.com/~rlb/ GSU: matrlbx@indigo4.cs.gsu.edu Home: 770-992-8877 ****************************************************************************