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Date:      Mon, 5 Jun 1995 17:11:58 -0500 (CDT)
From:      faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner)
To:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Cc:        temp@temptation.interlog.com, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.Org
Subject:   Re: NCR810 problem?
Message-ID:  <9506052211.AA07100@olympus>
In-Reply-To: <199506052117.OAA24238@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jun 5, 95 02:17:26 pm

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> 
> > > I too, am seeing the 1 boot out of 3 freaks out problem with the exact 
> > > same symptoms as the above couple of messages.  This box (Asus SP3G, 
> > > 486dx2/66, onboard NCR SCSI driving Quantum Empire 2100S and a HP 35480 
> > > DAT drive) used to run 1.1.5.1 perfectly - never a problem on reboot.  
> > > Now (2.0.5ish) freaks one out of three times with the NCR probing errors 
> > > and then the river of errors.  Can fix it by hitting reset 9 times out of 10.
> > > 
> > Same motherboard, Asus (whatever) 486-66, NCR PCI, 2940, smc pci, 
> > Seagate, Dat (on or off doesn't matter) 
> > 
> > reboots sometimes, Most of the not. Unmount correctly, but the 
> > screen goes black, and sits there, Install program, Umounts, 
> > but sits there.
> > but then out of the blue it'll reboot correctly.
> > Also *NO* disk problems. Nor any problems with anything else, 
> > NT/WIN95/WARP/LINUX/SCO/UNIXWARE/DOS.
> 
> For those of you with ASUS PCI/I-486SP3G boards I have kinda good news,
> I will be getting in my backordered supply of them this week and once
> I get done moving will be running at least 2 of them through the tests
> right of the bat (due for customer shipment) and have a 3rd for me to
> keep as a test board (sold too many of these now not to have one in
> the test bench.)  The others go to stock and won't last a week :-)
> 
> I have seen this shutdown problem now, but only when using the 2.0.5A
> install floppy, and that was on my known good test system.  Every kernel
> I build here has worked just fine in this respect (and I do run GENERIC
> on must of the test bench systems since hardware changes in there like
> there is no tomarrow!!).
> 
> Have you folks supped the -current kernel sources and tried with it?
> I am wondering if there is something funny going on with the build
> environment Jordan is using on these kernels, as it seems to me the
> folks installing the 2.0.5A are having problems, but those supping
> -current (should be *IDENTICAL*) bits are not seeing many of the
> strange problems reported :-(.
> 
> 

Different kernel configs?  I am not seeing this but I have the IDE tape and
cdrom stuff commented out.  If I didn't, I could not boot at all.

Boyd



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 Boyd Faulkner                                  faulkner@isd.tandem.com 
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