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From: Con Sultant <jkane@execpc.com>
Subject: VLB IDE/floppy/2S/P card recommendation
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 23:40:29 GMT
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I have a Promise Tech. VLB card with ide, floppy, game, serial, and
parallel ports. I have had to tweak it in the past to get it to work
with FreeBSD. I have also heard many horror stories from others with
these cards. I have tried to defend it, since I was able to get it to
work when I had problems with it.
Well, Now I added an ISA card with 2 more serial ports, and 2 parallel
ports, and another useless game port. I need the second Parallel port,
and will need the serial in the near future. I was able to get the
serial ports to work after a little customizing of the kernel. I played
with the parallel ports until two hours had gone by with no luck. The
kernel would recognize the port, and if I booted to DOS, both printers
worked just fine. Any time I sent a job to the new parallel port,
FreeBSD paniced and rebooted the machine. It would then reboot upon
starting the printd every time! I finally figured out what was
happening, and got it to start long enough to remove the job from the
queue. I played around with the kernel parameters and the hardware
addresses trying to find a combo that worked. None of the combos seemed
to work.
I still need that second port, so I am thinking about trying a new VLB
card. Anybody have a good CHEAP recommendation?
--
Jeff Kane mailto:jkane@execpc.com
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