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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!solace!nntp.se.dataphone.net!nntp.uio.no!newsfeed.nacamar.de!uunet!in1.uu.net!204.147.226.2!quack!quack.kfu.com!nsayer From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Help - 386 & AHA-1542B ? Date: 13 Apr 1997 23:59:32 GMT Organization: The Duck Pond public unix - http://www.kfu.com/ Lines: 33 Message-ID: <5irs14$6fe$1@phoenix.kfu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: quack.kfu.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39022 Just tried to install 2.2.1 for a friend. He has a cable modem that only gives him 1 IP address, so I was going to take some cheap hardware and make a NAT box for him. Using 2.2.1-RELEASE boot floppy from 'newer' directory. 386DX-25 w/8M of RAM. VGA mono cheap card 2 3C509Bs, only one of them in use during install, of course AHA-1542B Took care to insure that all the hw was configured not to step on each other, PNP disabled on the Ethernet cards, etc. It would make it various percentages through loading bin, then it would panic with some indication of disk corruption. Either 'dir bad' or 'freeing free block' or some such. This same hardware was working just fine at a friend of mine's house who was using it for an ISDN router (he upgraded the hardware on his so that his FreeBSD machine could do more work for him). The only difference was that there he was using an IDE drive and controller, and had only one 3c509 card (but only one was active during the install). I suspect that the 1542B DMA was overtaxing the motherboard, but another possibility is that the 1542B has problems under FreeBSD. Is anyone using this (old) card successfully? -- Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> | N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NORCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | "You've all done very well." +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | URL: http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ | -- Young Mr. Grace