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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help - 386 & AHA-1542B ?
Date: 19 Apr 1997 23:04:52 GMT
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From the responses, it does appear as though I am about the only one in
the world with any problem with this card. :-(

This MB has no cache, aparently. Or at least no way to disable it.

I went a bit further in analysing the failure. It still panics during
the install. I tried using a different DMA channel, de-turboing,
moving the card to a different slot. No help.

It still panics with some disk-related problem, and when I reboot, go
into an emergency shell (from the install floppy, the kernel on the disk
is unbootable) and try to fsck, it's as if a 3 year old scribbled
nonsense all over the place. One time fsck even dumped core! So
_clearly_ DMA just is not working properly between this SCSI board
and the motherboard.

The card is jumpered for 5.0 MB/s DMA, there appears to be no way to
change the board's ISA clock that I could find. This board was
running FreeBSD last week with an IDE drive just fine.

*shrug* My friend is going to get a cheap IDE disk from a friend,
but I am bummed that I couldn't make this combination work.

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