How much memory do you have in the 1540CF machine?

	The standard NetBSD distribution wont work with >16mb and
	a bus mastering ISA card (it needs bounce buffers)

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On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Dave Beck wrote:

> After coming up with 2 spare 486's, one 386, and my old favorite Sun 3/50,
> I decided to continue my distributed processing work under NetBSD.  I had
> no trouble installing NetBSD 1.2 from the binaries on my Sun3 via the
> network (and one of the 486's as a Linux box at the time) to a local SCSI 
> disk. Now came time to install NetBSD 1.2 via floppies and ftp (from the
> old Sun3) on the x86's.  The first machine (a 386sx with a NE2000, 170MB
> IDE disk and an ISA bus) went without incident except for the following:
> soft errors all OVER fd0a;  Not a problem I read through the archives of
> this list and figured "Okay maybe I need a new floppy and drive for the
> next install."  Well I used a new floppy drive and a new floppy (new...
> right out of the static bag): same thing on the next machine: a Cyrix
> 486DLC with 420MB IDE, ISA bus.  But they were just soft errors (and
> numerous at that) so I continued.  I noted to myself to try ANOTHER
> new floppy disk from another package/manufacturer as well as a PROVEN
> floppy disk drive.  Well now I am trying (and have been for the past 2
> days) to install on the last machine: a 486DX2 w/ 1Gig SCSI, ADAPTEC
> 1540CF, ISA bus.  I get the soft errors again and worse hard errors
> reading and writing to fd0a.  Then the installation thinks it would be
> funny to panic and reboots right after a long string of soft errors
> (during the tar --one-file-system -cf . | (cd /mnt... line in the install
> script).
> 
> Any ideas?  Am I blazingly stupid?  Two other questions: has anyone used
> PVM under NetBSD?  Has anyone used MacLayers under NetBSD?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> -- 
> Dave Beck
> Software Systems Developer
> Technology Group, Inc.
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>