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Date:      Sun, 21 Nov 1999 09:53:42 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
Cc:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: strange panic on Alpha, SCSI disk *type* related
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911210949050.12052-100000@semuta.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <199911211318.OAA38385@yedi.iaf.nl>

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Ah! Well, what you can also do is set the ISP_CFG_NONVRAM config option
or do

	isp_no_nvram=1	# (1 << unit)

in your loader defaults file (or at the loader prompt) and it won't
'believe' the NVRAM settings. It still might try and do Ultra though-
that's a property of chip type, clock rate and (heh heh) a bit set in the
Qlogic microengine's processor status register.

I still would like more details (maybe in the mail to follow), but I
probably can't look too closely at this until after December 1.


On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote:

> As Andrew Gallatin wrote ...
> 
> > <...>
> > 
> >  > isp0: Board Revision 1040B, resident F/W Revision 2.10.0
> > 
> > <..>
> 
> New evidence:
> 
> It looks like the problems are Ultra SCSI related. Meaning that if I 
> use the EEROMCFG.EXE utility*) and set everything to FAST-10 mode
> (as opposed to UltraSCSI) the system at least boots OK. I.e. it does
> not panic anymore:
> 
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/dda0 at isp0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <IBM DDRS-34560W S97B> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
> da0: 3.906MB/s transfers (1.953MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
> Enabled
> da0: 4357MB (8925000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 555C)
> a0a
> WARNING: preposterous clock chip time
>  -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
> swapon: adding /dev/da0b as swap device
> 
> etc.
> 
> I'm not too thrilled about the negotiated SCSI parameters, but it
> sure beats a panic ;-)
> 
> Wilko
> 
> 
> *) run from the ARC console which was in turn booted from floppy; 
> cute that the board does not have both ARC and SRM onboard at the same time.
> The ARC image can be found on the Alpha Eval Board SDK cdrom.
> 
> 
> -- 
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> |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte 	WWW : http://www.tcja.nl  http://www.freebsd.org
> 
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