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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!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!dciteleport.com!worldnet.att.net!news.alt.net!newspost1.alt.net!jdr From: jdr@magpage.com (Jim Rosemary) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE CDROM failure report. Date: 5 Dec 1996 23:16:31 GMT Organization: The Magnetic Page [302] 651-WRLD Lines: 28 Message-ID: <587l4f$3ii@tofu.alt.net> References: <580k6b$fec@amd40.wecs.org> In article <580k6b$fec@amd40.wecs.org>, Duane Eddingfield <duane@amd40.wecs.org> wrote: > Hi: > > I have given the 2.1.6 a try in response the call for testing.. >Here is what I have: > > AMD K5 x586 133 mHz "tiawan-special" no-name brand motherboard > with 3 PCI, 4 ISA and 1 VLB slots. 256K SRAM cache and 32MB DRAM. > The chipset is UMC and the bios is by AMI. > > Adaptec 1520 SCSI adapter with 80MB Quantum, and Archive tape. Hey! that sounds just like my motherboard! Mine doesn't work either. The problem I have been having is with the system locking up at the "Welcome to FreeBSD" screen. I have a SCSI CD-ROM interfaced via PAS-16 sound card (works fine under linux), which FreeBSD doesn't seem to recognize (I probably have the wrong I/O address set up). Before I could solve this, the system decided it didn't like booting from floppy and I had to increase the "I/O recovery time" in the BIOS setup. I was planning to try an IDE CD-ROM drive, but it sounds like that might not work either. If I find the lock up problem, I'll be sure to post the fix. Anyway, I don't trust this board as of yet because of generally flaky behavior under Linux (signals going to the wrong process sometimes, etc).