From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 3 19:30:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA05418 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 19:30:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tuan.cse.rmit.EDU.AU (tuan.cse.rmit.EDU.AU [131.170.118.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA05139 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 19:29:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from s9507886@tuan.cse.rmit.EDU.AU) Received: from dunnart.cse.rmit.EDU.AU (dunnart.cse.rmit.EDU.AU [131.170.109.25]) by tuan.cse.rmit.EDU.AU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA11644; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:29:04 +1000 (EST) Received: (from s9507886@localhost) by dunnart.cse.rmit.EDU.AU (8.8.5/8.7.3) id MAA08032; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:28:58 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:28:58 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199806040228.MAA08032@dunnart.cse.rmit.EDU.AU> From: Tony Alexander Frank To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Doug White on Wed, 3 Jun 1998 13:14:57 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: SC200 (53c810) probe fails to see attached HD Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > > CACHE TEST FAILED: reg dstat-sstat2 readback ffffffff. CACHE > > INCORRECTLY CONFIGURED. > > The note in /sys/pci/ncr.c points this towards a PCI bus problem. > The first line comes from a caching test that verifies that the > NCR's regisers are not being cached by writing 0xffffffff to a > read-only register. If it reads back 0xffffffff then your PCI > chipset is caching the result and not actually writing it to the > chip. > > Check your BIOS settings and see if you can disable PCI write > caching. Hmm, I didn't think to check the source code. :-( Maybe next time. The bios doesn't give me much room to move - no "PCI write caching" option as such, however there are a few others PCI related options which I will experiment with later. Thanks for the help! -- | Tony Frank | Mobile: +61-412-481-029 | | 4th Year Computer Systems Engineering | Fax: +61-3-9720-4672 | | RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Email: s9507886@cse.rmit.edu.au | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message