From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 4 6:51: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (procyon-ether.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.1.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1FAD37B503 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 06:51:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lilith (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA18135; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 15:50:52 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <001801c02e0a$225dd7e0$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> From: "Siegbert Baude" To: "Lee dewd" , References: Subject: Re: Symbios SCSI controller 53C810 Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 15:51:01 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Lee, > I have an old Compaq ProSignia that has a Symbios SCSI 53C810 SCSI > controller card built in. I start the install using the 2 disks, but when I > get to the beginning part of configuring the hardware that it autodetects I > don't see anything referring to the Symbios(formerly NCR) SCSI controller in > any way. I've been looking through your documentation and it does say it's > supported but it doesn't say how to install it or what to do if it's not > detected... Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks This controller chip is just working fine. Itīs in the mschine Iīm using here to support my external scanner. Donīt worry about it not being listed. At the point of installation you refer to, you can select or deselect additional drivers. This is no auto-detection of hardware. If you donīt deselect certain hardware here, you will get some non-harming boot messages similar to "device not found" in the future. Of course you can correct this later after having installed your system. Are the disks youīre referring to SCSI ones attached to your Symbios controller? Then you know, itīs working. If there is nothing attached, check your boot messages, when you first reboot after your install with the command "dmesg | less". You should find a reference to your controller there. If you build your own kernel later on your way, pay attention to keep the relevant lines. Hope this helps. BTW, for future questions on this list add some more information about your system, especially which version of FreeBSD you want to install. There is a regular posting on this list "How to get most out of FreeBSD questions". Watch for it, it will help you to ask precisely and to feed the list with necessary information, which will increase your chances to get good answers. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message