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Date:      Thu, 4 Jun 1998 03:19:14 +1000 (EST)
From:      Tony Alexander Frank <s9507886@cse.rmit.edu.au>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   SC200 (53c810) probe fails to see attached HD
Message-ID:  <199806031719.DAA13783@dropbear.cse.rmit.EDU.AU>

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Hopefully someone can help me out here...

I have a SC200 53c810 PCI SCSI card, to which is attached a 2gig IBM SCSI HDD.

My motherboard is a fairly old 486 based board, a Hippo 15 from Octek, with 
UMC chips...  It contains Award BIOS v4,50G and supports the NCR bios, and the
processor is a Cyrix 5x86-100.

Extract from bios boot messages:

NCR SDMS (TM) V3.0 PCI SCSI BIOS, PCI Rev. 2.0
Copyright 1993 NCR Corporation.
NCRPCI-3.06.00
ID 02   IBM     0664N1H

I have successfully installed both PC DOS 7 and OS/2 Warp 4 using the same
configuration of H/W, however I am having no success with FreeBSD. :-(

While booting from the 2.2.5-RELEASE install floppy, doing a debug & verbose
boot, the probe results in the following:

Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
	configuration mode 1 allows 32 devices.
ncr0 <ncr 53c810 fast10 scsi> rev 2 int a irq 11 on pci0:4
	mapreg[10] type=1 addr=00006000 size=0100.
	mapreg[14] type=0 addr=f0000000 szie=0100.
	reg20: virtual=0xf3b22000 physical=0xf0000000 size=0x100
ncr0: minsync=25, maxsync=206, maxoffs=8, 16 dwords burst, normal dma fifo
ncr0: single-ended, open drain IRQ driver
CACHE TEST FAILED: reg dstat-sstat2 readback ffffffff.
CACHE INCORRECTLY CONFIGURED.
chip0 <generic PCI bridge (vendor=1060 device=8881 subclass=0)> rev 4 on pci0:16
chip1 <generic PCI bridge (vendor=1060 device=886a subclass=1)> rev 13 on pci0:18:0
pci0:18:1: UMC, device=0x673a, class=storage (ide) [no driver assigned]
pci0: uses 256 bytes of memory from f0000000 upto f00000ff.
pci0: uses 256 bytes of I/O space from 6000 upto 60ff.
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
[...]
imasks: bio c0000040, tty c003009a, net c003009a
BIOS Geometries:
 0:03fe3c3f 0..1022=1023 cylinders, 0..60=61 heads, 1..63=63 sectors


Obviously, since it doesn't make it to the "waiting for scsi devices to settle"
the "CACHE INCORRECTLY CONFIGURED" might have something to do with things...

My problem is that the only cache on the system is the CPU and L2 cache on the 
M/B.  This I have disabled in the BIOS, yet there is no apparent difference in
operation.  There are a number of settings in the BIOS for various PCI options,
however not having needed any changes for the other operating systems leaves
me reluctant to fiddle.

I have searched the mail-archive and GNATS etc, however I can only seem to find
good reports on the SC200. :-/

I'm wondering if I need a bios upgrade or similar, since from what I can see,
the card has two jumpers, one controlling the IRQ, the other unknown.

If anyone has any suggestions, I would be most happy to listen!

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| Tony Frank                         | FAX: +61-3-9720-4672                |
| Email: s9507886@cse.rmit.edu.au    | Mobile: +61-412-481-029             |
| 4th Year Computer Systems Engineering @ RMIT, Melbourne, Vic.  Australia |

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