I'm evaluating some systems at work that I was really hoping would work
out for me, because the price is right... but when I boot a 1.4.2 boot
floppy (actually, the boot floppy is a just-pre-release 1.4.2_ALPHA),
I get this:

ncr0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: ncr 53c896 fast40 wide scsi
pci_mem_find: expected mem type 00000000, found 00000004
ncr0: interrupting at irq 5
ncr0: minsync=10, maxsync=137, maxoffs=31, 128 dwords burst, large dma fifo
ncr0: single-ended, open drain IRQ driver
CACHE TEST FAILED: host wrote 1, ncr read -16892.
CACHE TEST FAILED: ncr wrote 2, host read 1819044972.
CACHE INCORRECTLY CONFIGURED.
ncr1 at pci0 dev 11 function 1: ncr 53c896 fast40 wide scsi
pci_mem_find: expected mem type 00000000, found 00000004
ncr1: interrupting at irq 11
ncr1: minsync=10, maxsync=137, maxoffs=31, 128 dwords burst, large dma fifo
ncr1: single-ended, open drain IRQ driver
CACHE TEST FAILED: host wrote 1, ncr read -15616.
CACHE TEST FAILED: ncr wrote 2, host read 1819044972.
CACHE INCORRECTLY CONFIGURED.

The motherboard is a Tyan thunderbolt, with onboard dual-channel Symbios
53C896, which claims to be LVD, tho the driver's reporting it as
single-ended.  

Is there any hope for me to run a (patched, even?) 1.4.2 on this system?
What about -current?  (Which, of course, begs the question, when's the 1.5
branch happening?  I know, I know...)

Thanks,
+j

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Jeff Rizzo                                         http://boogers.sf.ca.us/~riz