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Date:      Fri, 30 Aug 1996 10:27:04 +0000
From:      Darius Moos <moos@degnet.baynet.de>
To:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc:        Harald Wittmann <wittmann@fmi.uni-passau.de>, freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD-questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Problem: AHA-2940 and Floppy-controler = no bootup
Message-ID:  <3226C1F8.74BC@degnet.baynet.de>
References:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960829111002.229O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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Hi,

there is no floppy-controller on the motherboard;
therefore my friend used the floppy-controller on the IO-card.

Darius Moos.

email: moos@degnet.baynet.de


Doug White wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Darius Moos wrote:
> 
> > have to ask this for a friend.
> > Here we go:
> >   Hardware:
> >     - SOYO-Pentium-mainboard
> >     - Adaptec 2940 without floppy-connector
> >     - IO-card with floppy-controller
> >   Symptoms:
> >     - When booting with the above hardware, the memory gets checked
> >       by the BIOS correctly and then when the Adaptec is in turn,
> >       the bootup-process just stops before the Adaptec gets active
> >       to scan the SCSI-devices and the machine hangs.
> >     - the happens with a different floppy-controller.
> >     - when taking any floppy-controller out of the machine, the
> >       BIOS-bootup gets to the Adaptec, the Adaptec installs his BIOS
> >       without problems and the machine runs fine.
> >   Question:
> >     - Anyone else had similar problems and knows a solution or a
> >       workaround ?
> 
> Disable the floppy controller on the I/O card and use the one built into
> the motherboard, or vice versa.  Both are enabled and they are
> conflicting.
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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