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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!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-ana-24.sprintlink.net!news.rns.net!news.van.rns.net!news.tvinet.com!amd40.wecs.org!amd40.wecs.org!duane From: duane@amd40.wecs.org (Duane Eddingfield) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE CDROM failure report. Date: 8 Dec 1996 06:05:26 GMT Organization: A FreeBSD box. Lines: 43 Message-ID: <58dlr6$qfp@amd40.wecs.org> References: <580k6b$fec@amd40.wecs.org> <587l4f$3ii@tofu.alt.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial17.tvinet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jim Rosemary (jdr@magpage.com) wrote: : In article <580k6b$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). I had trouble with this motherboard at first because I had the wrong cache module, which cause it to either lock up or reboot at random intervals. When I got the right cache module (SRAM, 15ns) it works great. Also note that this motherboard will NOT take EDO RAM. Anyway the reason for this post is to convey testing of the FreeBSD 2.1.6 Release as requested, I guess that the right word :-) Linux 2.0.10 runs just fine on the above mentioned hardware luckly. -- Duane Eddingfield My real e-mail address is: duane@tvinet.com Powered by FreeBSD Real UNIX for free!