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Date:      Sun, 12 Mar 1995 22:27:40 +0200
From:      Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi>
To:        Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: kern/238: failed assertion in ncr.c --> no more scsi disk access
Message-ID:  <199503122027.WAA23884@shadows.cs.hut.fi>
In-Reply-To: Peter Dufault's message of 12 Mar 1995 15:00:41 %2B0200

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   > >Synopsis:       failed assertion in ncr.c --> no more scsi disk access
...
   > 	The hardware: ASUS PCI/I-486SP3G
   > 		      Intel 486 DX 4 100
   > 		      32MB Ram 70ns in two sims
   > 		      WD8003EP AT-BUS
   > 		      Adaptec AHA1542CF with disabled Floppy and disabled BIOS
   > 		      ELSA Winner100pro PCI 2MB
   > 		      QUANTUM Empire 2100S  Target 0 on ncr bus
   > 			  "QUANTUM EMPIRE_2100S     1200"
   > 		      WANG DAT 3400 Target 3 on ncr bus
   > 			  "WangDAT Model 3400DX     1.10"

Cheap taiwanese PCI-VLB combo board (junk)
AMD 486 DX 3 100
32MB ram
SMC Ultra (If I remember correctly)
Cheap PCI NCR controller

   > 	If you try to access /dev/rst0.0 with dd bs=128k if=/dev/rst0.0
   > 	you get on the first access:
   > Mar 10 09:00:28 boheme kernel: st0: bad request, must be between 0 and 0
   >         (I think this message doesn't do any harm. It also starts the first
   > 	 access on the adaptec and does no harm there.)
...
   >         If you try a second time you get the following:
   > 	 st0:      ncr.c assertion "cp = np->header.cp" line 5171 failed
   > 	 st0:      ncr.c assertion "cp" line 5172 failed
   > 	 .
   > 	 .
   > 	 ncr0:    restart

We also got this with WangDAT 3400DX.  The drive works fine on a BT or
Adaptek, but not on a PCI NCR controller.  I don't have much more info on
this, I was too busy at the time and moved the driver to another machine.

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Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND,
hsu@cs.hut.fi  home +358-0-8031121 work -4513377 fax -4555276  riippu SN



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