From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 16 21:15:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA05797 for current-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 21:15:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (wck-ca8-13.ix.netcom.com [204.31.231.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA05789; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 21:15:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.5/8.6.9) id VAA19766; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 21:15:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 21:15:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199704170415.VAA19766@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: james@nexis.net CC: jkh@time.cdrom.com, se@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from James FitzGibbon on Wed, 16 Apr 1997 23:18:34 -0400 (EDT)) Subject: Re: NCR 53c875 support broken in 2.2.1. From: asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (Sorry, I'm really replying to Jordan quoted by James here....) * > Well, I finally stuck the "new freefall" together today (it's * > temporarily going by the name of "ripcord.cdrom.com" until we get it * > all set up and ready to deploy) and it has an NCR/Symbios 53c875 based * > SCSI WIDE card in it, attached to a Quantum Atlas I WIDE drive. When * > I attempted to install 2.2.1, the NCR driver immediately fell over * > after probing the drive and started spitting out bits of failed * > sequencer commands; I didn't have anything to write them down on at * > the time and figured I could always reproduce them on demand later if * > need be, so apologies in advance for the lack of detail here (this is * > mostly a "heads up" message). Are you sure that's an Atlas I? I seem to remember the Quantam Grand Prix used to have problems with NCR's. They are both 7200RPM drives, and have very similar model numbers (4GB versions: Atlas "34300", GP "34301").... Satoshi