Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 11:08:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, tege@cygnus.com Subject: Re: MAJOR problem with FreeBSD-2.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <199505211808.LAA03558@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199505211752.KAA12689@kithrup.com> from "Sean Eric Fagan" at May 21, 95 10:52:04 am
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> > We put together yet another system yesterday. This one had: > > Zappa Pentium/PCI motherboard Take that motherboard and through it in the nearest garbage can, you have not been following my posts on the lists about this board. It is trash, garbage, junk, crappola, etc etc etc... > Pentium-90 > 32MBytes RAM > BusLogic PCI SCSI controller I no longer support BusLogic products, too many problems, and too long on hold with tech support (I wasted 4 hours on hold trying to get the new PROMS for my BT946, after that much time I just cross a mfg off my list due to lack of ``reasonable techinical support''. > Spider Tarantula PCI graphics card > WD8013 ethernet card (ed0 found it, no problem) > > We installed from the CD-ROM. After getting it all up and installed, I > proceeded to play with it a bit -- the first thing I wanted to do was build > a new kernel. So, I did > > cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > cp GENERIC TEGE > vi TEGE > > The kernel panic'ed, in vm_bounce. It does this fairly reliably. The owner > of the system also reports that it dies when gcc runs, as well. Ehh??? We should not be doing vm_bounce with a PCI BT946 card, it has 32 bit addressing. What did the probe say about the Bt946 card? Does the kernel you are running have BOUNCE_BUFFERS in it. > Help! We have until about Wednesday to get a working version of FreeBSD on > this system, or else some other *nix goes on it (yech ;)). I'll try, but given the fact your using 2 products I won't touch with a 10 foot pole it might be hard :-(. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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