Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 16:30:22 -0400 From: Dan Welch <WELCHDW@wofford.edu> To: HARDWARE@FREEBSD.ORG Cc: WELCHDW@wofford.edu Subject: isa bus and boca multiport boards Message-ID: <970520163022.22a1f853@wofford.edu>
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I'm having quite a bit of difficulty getting Boca's 8 and 16 port boards to work in my standard isa bus machines. A few of the boards work ok, some work with a port or two appearing to be bad, others have a chunk of neighboring ports appearing not to work. Which ports are "bad" is stable in a given machine, but may differ between machines. Additionally, the boards will often cause a machine to no longer be able to complete a reboot via "shutdown -r now"; the machine will just freeze after finishing sync. Remove the board and all is well again. At first I thought I just had a bad bunch of boards (3 8's and 3 16's) and got them replaced. The replacement set is just as bad. In the 12 boards I've tried, I have only gotten one "good" 8 port and one "good" 16 port; there's a single "bad" port in each but otherwise workable, except that the 16 port prohibits full reboot except by reset button. The first Boca board I ever bought (8 port) worked flawlessly in all three machines it's occupied and still does. This problem spans 8 machines of 486 and 586 class, with clocks ranging from 20 MHz to 75 MHz. Does anybody recognize the problem?
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