Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 19:05:54 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Symbios 875 activity LED? Message-ID: <199901220105.TAA06082@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> of "Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:57:35 PST." <199901202357.PAA04268@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith writes: > > The next question is, "How does one dectect and differentiate an Asus > > SC875 from other Symbios based cards?" Possibly a BIOS checksum? Think > > the Asus uses straight Symbios BIOS. > > The "correct" way to do it is to use the subvendor ID. As Stefan > noted, however, it seems that many manufacturers don't fill this in. That's what I was thinking and trying to say last night but apparently was too tired to realize that's not quite what I said. Think that is also the message Stefan Esser has been repeating. BIOS checksums would probably be the only reliable way to tell but for such a small benefit such as "make the LED" work its not worth the hassle or bloat to build such a database into the kernel. <humor> Now my LED is working, could somebody put a software timer on it to latch it on longer? Maybe a symbiosd, or ledd? It flashes so fast I can't see it unless I have a couple of "cvs updates" running. </humor> -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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