Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:00:06 -0600 (CST) From: Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net> To: Luis.G.Silva@inesc.pt Cc: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Subject: RE: RE: AIC-7895 Message-ID: <XFMail.980120080828.dledford@dialnet.net> In-Reply-To: <199801201325.NAA00347@krylov.inesc.pt>
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On 20-Jan-98 Luis.G.Silva@inesc.pt wrote: >That's right, this is all it prints before hanging ! > >Hardware: > >PII@266, Tyan Thunder 2 w/ Adaptec AIC-7895 > >SCSI Channel A: > Quantum Fireball 4.3GB SCSI-2 > Quantum Fireball Tempest 2.1GB SCSI-2 > Plextor x4.5 CDROM > >SCSI Channel B: > <empty> > >There is a strange thing: for both channels it says "BIOS Disabled". >Is this normal ? This should only happen under 1 of two conditions. 1, your BIOS is disabled :) or 2, it's failing to load the SEEPROM. When you boot with aic7xxx=verbose:0xfff it should tell you if it successfully loaded the SEEPROM for your card, let me know if that happended or it if said it couldn't read the SEEPROM. As a side note, on the motherboard 7895 chipsets, the BIOS for the chipset is part of the motherboard BIOS (aka, instead of getting a notice that you have the Adaptec BIOS version x.yy, you chould get something like BIOS version x.yyzzzz where z is a character string corresponding to your particular motherboard type, on mine z is DK4 because I'm on an Intel DK440LX motherboard and the differences on how these different BIOS implementations handle the SEEPROM could conceivably cause me headaches). ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net> Date: 20-Jan-98 Time: 08:00:07 ----------------------------------
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