> 24MB RAM
> Tried: 1542 controller for SCSI  HD

	Bingo - thats the problem.
	isa DMA is limited to the first 16Mb, so the 154x controller
	wont work in stock netbsd when you put more than 16mb in...

	Solutions - any of:

	    a) Pull 8Mb out to take you down to 16Mb

	    b) Do a, then pull down Juergen Hannken-Illjes's bounce buffer
	       patch to get NetBSD to work with 154x & >16Mb.
	       (ftp://bseis.eis.cs.tu-bs.de/pub/hannken/. Applies to
	       1.2BETA or various earlier releases & runs fine.

	    c) Run OpenBSD, FreeBSD or some other system which supports
	       bounce buffers.

                   David/abs             (david@mono.org)

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On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Robert Niles wrote:

> Last night my HD went down so I tried to configure a SCSI 2GB HD
> for use with NetBSD. When creating a new file system for the drive
> I received errors to the effect that DMA was too large for ISA.
> I couldn't get around that problem. Next I tried to bring up
> two IDE HDs It would recognize the first, but not the second. I have
> no idea why, because both drives are definately good.
> 
> I have:
> 
> Pentium 66
> 24MB RAM
> Tried: 1542 controller for SCSI  HD
> 
> Robert
>