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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!solace!news.stealth.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!zippy.dct.ac.uk!tremas!amm Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: problems with AMI motherboard Message-ID: <1996Sep11.152329.2786@zippy.dct.ac.uk> From: amm@tremas.tay.ac.uk (Angus Marshall) Date: 11 Sep 96 15:23:29 +0100 References: <3234B8AA.4C35@sdsc.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: tremas.tay.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 37 kurtm@sdsc.edu wrote: : Hello, I'm hoping someone can shed light on a problem I'm having with a : new machine. I've purchased an AMI Titan II dual pentium motherboard : and moved my Adaptec 2940 and SCSI drive into it from my old machine. : The old kernel refuses to boot properly. It seems to have problems when : it tries to identify the devices on the PCI bus. On the old machine it : would report "Adaptec 294x SCSI", "S3 video", etc. Now it reports: : pci0 (root): configuration mode 1 : pci0 bus 0 device 0: unknown vendor/product: 0x8086/0x04a3 (class: : bridge, subclass: host, revision: 0x11) not configured : pci0 bus 0 device 2: unknown vendor/product: 0x8086/0x0482 (class: : prehistoric, subclass: miscellaneous, revision: 0x04) not configured : pci0 bus 0 device 3: unknown vendor/product: 0x1095/0x0640 (class: mass : storage, subclass: IDE, revision: 0x02) not configured : pci0 bus 0 device 8: unknown vendor/product: 0x9004/0x8178 (class: mass : storage, subclass: SCSI, revision: 0x0) not configured : pci0 bus 0 device 9: unknown vendor/product: 0x5333/0x8811 (class: : display, subclass: VGA, revision: 0x00) not configured <comments about SCSI and bridge chips deleted> Looks very similar to the problems I had with an Akhter 486/DX4. The problem was 'broken' PCI bridge chips. The only solution we could find was a whole new motherboard from a different manufacturer. Ah the joys of 'standards' ;-) -- _________ | Angus M. Marshall BSc FRSA, School of Informatics, | | | University of Abertay Dundee, Bell St., Dundee ___ _|____=___ |_ ___ | DD1 1HG U.K. Vox: (+44) (1382) 308600 / \(_) (_)/ \ | Fax: (+44) (1382) 308877 |`-'|o| _______ |o|`-'| | http://www.tay.ac.uk/mcsweb/staff/amm/ | |/| (_______) |\| | | "It wasn't a wrong answer. It was a right answer, |___|--\_________/--|___| | ........................to a different question."