More adaptec 2842 problems
Now I have found bootdisk (.../buzz-updates/disks-i386/special-
kernels/boot/boot1440_2.0.5-1.bin) from wich I can boot. That's
good, but now new problems has raised. After ``booting/rooting'' I
tried to install the basedisks. While doing that the installation
process sometimes stops telling that one of the basedisks (it's
random witch one) is bad, but they are not, they are new and I have
checked them with more disk utilities. Mustly I can read all the
disks correctly, but when time comes to extracting the files new
problems shows up. Each time when extracting the files each time I
most likely get a new error. Typical I get a message somthing like:
general protection : 0000
CPU : 0
EIP : 0010:[<00118be4>]
EFLAGS : 00010206
.
.
.
several register, stack, ... dumps
.
.
.
Segmentation fault
One time I was actually lucky installing the basesystem. But (again)
then a new problem showed up. I copied some *.gz files to my computer
and then tried gzip's integrity test (on the file )
gzip -tv filename.gz (file on the computer)
and sometimes I am told that the same file is OK and sometimes not
(more or less random). But what is much worse is that I often get one
of the ``Ooops'' and dumps like a I have just mentioned.
What I am telling is that something acts unstable and that's what I
would like to ask some of the experts out there about. Is it
- Because of some bugs in the rather new kernel version or some of
the modules (aic7xxx or some other), or is it
- Because of my hardware (jumper settings, BIOS settings, etc) or
whatever one can imagine. Is there som thing special one should be
aware of installing on a PC machine with an adaptec 2842 host
adapter.
I am ready to give more details about my everything. I can tell that
DOS (5.0 or 6.2) is running fine on my machine, but on the other side
a real mode system as DOS does not require much of the host adapter.
Niels Bo Johansen
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