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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!news-hk.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-tokyo.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-stock.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!news1.tele.dk!cph-1.news.DK.net!dkuug!dknet!funny.bahnhof.se!seunet!news2.swip.net!nike.volvo.se!cyklop.volvo.se!peter From: peter@cyklop.volvo.se (peter hakanson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDI 1.1, P5, and all that Date: 9 Oct 1996 18:45:03 GMT Organization: Volvo Corp. Lines: 57 Message-ID: <53grrf$nhr@nike.volvo.se> References: <53chsi$o5@chip.klic.rain.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cyklop.volvo.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] have you TURNED OFF plug-and-pray ???? Keith Lofstrom (keithl@chip.klic.rain.com) wrote: : I have an old, working, mostly OK BSDI 1.1 system that I would like to : leave as intact as possible. I would like to make it faster. : I attempted to replace the 486DX50 motherboard this weekend with a : P5 motherboard (TYAN Tomcat with 5 ISA/4 PCI) and move all the ISA boards : over. I tried about a zillion things: : P5 75MHz, P5 133MHz (I had two) : parameter frobbing (ISA clock, wait states, etc.) : leaving out all but the disk and video cards : shorter scsi chain : different RAM, drives, different cables, etc. : and I kept on getting various varieties of apparent SCSI error. I get the : farthest with one peripheral on the SCSI chain; this, of course, results : in problems when the missing disks are sought. With two SCSI peripherals, : the system locks up during the peripheral identification portion of the boot: : : aha0 at isa0 iobase 0x330 irq 14 drq 5: unknown type F0 Adaptec card rev F0 : aha0: delaying to permit certain devices to finish self-test : aha0: bus transfer 5 Mb/s, bus on/off 8/4 us : tg0 at aha0 target 0 : sd0 at tg0 unit 0: SEAGATE ST43400N rev 1028 (SCSI-2) 5688447*512 : tg1 at aha0 target 2 : sd1 at tg1 u : : 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? : Yes, I have BSDI 2.0 and no I don't want to use it - the new X windows : stuff doesn't work with my strange video setup. I've got a functional : kludge and I would like to keep it, just speed it up. : Keith : (PS, BSDI - I probably should send you folks some support bucks and ask you : these questions, but I fear the "just switch to 2.1 and no, we don't support : X386-SGCS, the ATI Ultra 8514, the Digiboard PC/8E ..." response. ) : -- : Keith Lofstrom keithl@klic.rain.com Voice (503)-520-1993 : KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" : Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Power ICs -- -- Peter Hakanson VolvoData Dep 2580 phone +46 31 66 74 27