[comp.unix.i386] ISC 2.2 Installation Troubles a

neese@adaptex.UUCP (07/02/90)

>>> ISC 2.0.2 installs *just fine* on my system, it's quite stable.
>>> I suppose some configuration info may be helpful, so here goes ;^) I have
>>> a 33MHz 386 TransComputer main board with 8MB RAM, and a ST4383E hard
>>> disk driven by an Adaptec 2322B-8 controller.
>>
>>	My system is a 33Mhz NIC system (micronics knock off)
>>	with 8MB ram 32K cache, pheonix bios,
>>	a micropolis 1588 & cdc wren 7 on an adaptec
>>	1542 controler and a monochrome display adapter.  I have tried
>>	different diaplay adapters up thru VGA with no help (Interactive
>>	said it _had_ to be a bad display adapter).  I installed these
>>	same disk as a test on another machine without problems to 
>>	remove any doubt as to the integrety of the disk's.

Have you tried to run the bus master test?  It is located in the ROM BIOS
of the 154x adapter at dc00:9.  If this test fails, the motherboard cannot
support a bus master card.  No software in the world will help.  If it
passes, you can start looking for other areas that may have some problems.

			Roy Neese
			Adaptec Senior SCSI Applications Engineer
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