Subject: Re: BSD boot halted due to cumana card?
To: Kim G. S. yhus <kim@pvv.ntnu.no>
From: Scott Stevens <s.k.stevens@IC.AC.UK>
List: port-arm32
Date: 07/05/1996 11:06:17
Kim G. S. writes:
> When booting RiscBSD, my machine now hangs after writing:
>
> csc0 at podulebus [ podule 0 ]: dmabuf V0xf27a2000 P0x183c7000
> scsibus 0 at csc0
>
> I use a cumana SCSI-2 card.
>
> Before the problem, I had internal 850MB HD, Panasonic PD at
> scsi 4, and quantum 250MB at scsi 0.
>
> I exchanged my scsi HD for a removable extra IDE of 200MB,
> since I need to exchange data with a linux friend on a
> Unix project.
>
> So, my machine hangs with the combinations with fixed
> 850MB IDE, with or without the 210MB IDE, and fixed PD
> drive with scsi 4 or 0, and all kernels I tried, including
> atapi-4339.
>
> I suppose this is the problem mentioned with the cumana driver.
> I am unable to fix it myself, since I cannot run RiscBSD.
> I am able to continue My and Roars floating point library
> development under RiscOS instead.
>
> Any suggestions, advice, or new kernels that may fix the
> problem?
This sounds like a termination problem. Before did you have one
internal and one external device ? If so terminate the bus on the
unused side.
> Kim0
Cheers Scott
--
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