error messages from Adaptec driver when installing system

[Steven Plite splite@wdni.com]

> i have no idea. given the error determining the cpu frequency i'd say there's
> something else fishy about the system, it's not the adaptec. i've never seen
> [...]

Maybe that indicates the problem I've had trying to run aux/vga on my AMD
386DX/40 ISA motherboard (UMC chipset).

aux/vga causes my system to lock hard (aux/vga -lpv > /tmp/x is no help, as
the system locks before anything gets to disk.)  After trying three disk
controllers, two floppy controllers, three VGA cards, two hard disks, two
mice, and various amounts of RAM, I've pretty much concluded the motherboard is
the culprit.

With my normal BIOS config, the kernel reports my CPU speed as 45MHz.  If I
disable the external cache and increase the RAM wait states, it will report it
as 36MHz.

So... is there anything I can do about this?  (BTW, thanks to all for their
responses to my previous postings on this subject.)


On a happier note, my CD-ROM is being ordered today.  How long has it been
taking receive it in the US?  BTW, here's the address and fax number for HB&C:

Harcourt Brace and Company
6277 Sea Harbor Drive
Orlando, FL  32887
Fax: 800-269-5232

(To get this address, I had to listen to their phone ring for over five minutes
before somebody answered.  It might be nice to add this address to
http://plan9.att.com/plan9/distrib.html, so that others need not suffer the
same fate.)
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Steven Plite  <splite@wdni.com>       Open Systems Eng. & Support, Weyerhaeuser
    "This is the roller coaster of endless and violent vomit."	-- Jason Fox