On Sat, 29 Mar 1997 11:35:45 +0000 
 Nick Loman <nick@csosl.co.uk> wrote:

 > Is your Adaptec adapter on an ISA bus? If so, it will have problems if you
 > have more than 16mb of memory. Something to do with DMA :)

...if this were the problem, there would have most definitely been
messages on the console.

That said, let's try and find the real problem.

Tony, can you post the output of "dmesg"?

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