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- From: smace@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Mace)
- Subject: Re: SCSI ADAPTEC 1542B card serious trouble !!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.042445.25982@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <1992Sep3.174251.7397@kth.se> <189stoINNe6h@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 04:24:45 GMT
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- In article <189stoINNe6h@agate.berkeley.edu> adam@soda.berkeley.edu (Adam J Richter) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep3.174251.7397@kth.se> f89-cmb@alv.nada.kth.se (Mikael Bj|rn) writes:
- >>When I start from a coldboot the boot finds my scsi card and hangs.
- >>I have looked and found that the card itself hangs after the message
- >>that Linux has found a scsi card.
- >[...]
- >>For your convinience I here present my configuration:
- >>
- >>Copam 486/33B with 16Mb and 256 Kb cache using Phoenix BIOS A486 1.01
- >>Quantum 210A a 210Mb harddisc.
- >>Trident 8900C 1Mb SVGA noname card.
- >>AND
- >>SCSI host card Adaptec 1542B with BIOS 3.10. This is installed with a
- >>standard preinstalled configuration. Wangtek SCSI tapestreamer.
- >
- > As I stated in an earlier posting, I'm also experiencing
- >this problem. Here is some more data on the problem, which might
- >be useful to anyone who has ideas about what the bug might be.
- >
- > My Adaptec 1542B revision J SCSI controller works fine under
- >Mach, but doesn't get along with Linux on my 486/33 with 20MB of RAM,
- ^^^^
-
- you do know that due to the restiction of the ISA bus the 1542B can only
- do bus master DMA to the first 16meg of the system.
-
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