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Date:      Sun, 19 Jul 1998 18:27:39 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: symbios 53c875 and activity led? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980719182237.18742B-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <199807191837.NAA22095@nospam.hiwaay.net>

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On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, David Kelly wrote:

> Dave Cole writes:
> > I know I posted once before, asking for help getting my LED on my asus
> > sc875 (based on the ncr/symbios 53c875 scsi interface) and I'm back
> > again, asking the same question.
> > 
> > Many moons ago, the solution was supposedly adding 'option
> > NCR_SYMBIOS_COMPAT' or somesuch to the kernel definition file.  Well,
> > that option went away about 2 months after that.
> > 
> > I haven't tried a -cam world with this interface yet, and hope to
> > soon, but in the meantime, whom else has this issue?  I rather like
> > being able to see my scsi bus accesses, just to prove to myself that
> > the system is actually doing something at times, and miss my LED
> > greatly.  Is there another easy patch?  Was the LED turned off
> > deliberately?  etc. etc. etc.
> 
> You mean to tell me this is a FreeBSD problem? All along I just assumed 
> the LED circuit was broken on my Asus SC875. Then again, I've never run 
> the card under DOS or Windows or anything other than FreeBSD.

I heard of this problem with the driver a LONG time ago, and thought
it was fixed.  If it matters any, the LED on my Tekram DC-390F
(53c875) has been working for a long time.


-- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net
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