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Date:      Tue, 1 Mar 2005 07:10:53 +0100
From:      Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?
Message-ID:  <509958685.20050301071053@wanadoo.fr>
In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEJEFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
References:  <956831073.20050228205253@wanadoo.fr> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEJEFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>

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Ted Mittelstaedt writes:

> But that was under NT I understand, using NT drivers, right?

Yes.

> I wouldn't put it past the NT driver author of your SCSI card, in an
> effort to avoid problems, to have written the NT driver so that ALL
> transactions on the SCSI bus are asynchronous.

I don't know.

> Anyway, if this is it, you will not have been the first person with
> iffy hardware that worked fine under Windows to have it break under
> FreeBSD.

I didn't know that Adaptec, Quantum, and Seagate were building such
"iffy" hardware.

This machine originally cost $9000.  HP did not skimp on the hardware.

>  I just had a machine do this to me Friday - a Pentium Pro 150
> - but I managed to guess at a change to a BIOS setting that fixed the
> problem.

Fine.  What do I change on my machine to fix the problem?

-- 
Anthony




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