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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Subject: Re: BSDI 1.1, P5, and all that
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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 21:31:08 GMT
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In article <53chsi$o5@chip.klic.rain.com>, keithl@chip.klic.rain.com (Keith Lofstrom) writes:
> and there it hangs. That's with the P5-75, the P5-133 quits before even
> starting the boot. The identically configured 1542CP works fine with
> the 486/50 (I am using it now). The variable is the P5 and motherboard.
>
> So what gotchas lurk in configuring P5 systems? Ideas?
I was doing some SCSI driver development under BSD/OS 2.1 on a Tomcat with
a 166MHz CPU. When I upgraded the Tomcat from a rev 3 to a rev 4, none of the
ISA busmaster controllers (I tested with a 1542B, 1542C, 1542CF, and a BT-
524B) behaved properly. I concluded that something changed in the Tomcat. As
my development was mostly concerned with the latest BusLogic PCI cards (94x,
95x) I didn't worry about it that much.
You might want to try a PCI BusLogic card (the BT-946 should be recognized
in 1.1). It'd be lots faster, too...
Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
terry@spcvxa.spc.edu St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
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