thanks for the help so far :-)

the scsi adaptor is a PCI

here's the output of dmesg now, sorry i couldnt send it before
because the network was down:

NetBSD 1.2_BETA (_NIN_) #0: Wed Nov  6 10:07:38 GMT 1996
    david@tachyon.mono.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/_NIN_
CPU: Pentium (GenuineIntel 586-class CPU)
real mem  = 33161216
avail mem = 29814784
using 430 buffers containing 1761280 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
isa0 at mainbus0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
ed0 at isa0 port 0x280-0x29f iomem 0xd0000-0xd3fff irq 9
ed0: address 00:00:c0:d2:1e:62, type WD8013EPC (16-bit) bnc
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
pc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x6f irq 1: color
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
vendor 0x8086 product 0x122d (class bridge, subclass host, revision 0x02) 
at pci0 dev 0 function 0 not configured
vendor 0x8086 product 0x122e (class bridge, subclass ISA, revision 0x02) 
at pci0 dev 7 function 0 not configured
ahc0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0
ahc0: interrupting at irq 10
ahc0: Reading SEEPROM...done.
ahc0: aic7870 Single Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs
ahc0: Reseting Channel A
ahc0: Downloading Sequencer Program...Done
scsibus0 at ahc0
ahc0: target 4 synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset = 0xf
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 4 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST51080N, 0958> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 1030MB, 4826 cyl, 4 head, 109 sec, 512 bytes/sec
vendor 0x4005 product 0x2302 (class display, subclass VGA, revision 0x00) 
at pci0 dev 9 function 0 not configured
biomask 440 netmask 640 ttymask 65a
changing root device to sd0a
WARNING: no swap space found
nfs server mfs-u1:/mono/u1: not responding
nfs server mfs-sys:/mono/sys: not responding
nfs server mfs-home:/mono/home: not responding
nfs server mfs-u1:/mono/u1: is alive again
nfs server mfs-home:/mono/home: is alive again
nfs server mfs-sys:/mono/sys: is alive again

thanks again

Tony


On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> 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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