Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:49:55 +0200 From: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NCR 53c875 support broken in 2.2.1. Message-ID: <19970417114955.56763@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> In-Reply-To: <3613.861244357@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Wed, Apr 16, 1997 at 07:32:37PM -0700 References: <3613.861244357@time.cdrom.com>
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On Apr 16, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote: > 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 Sorry to hear that! Getting this fixed will of course become the top-most point on my ToDo list. > 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). Hmmm, I'm surprised to hear you have that kind of trouble ... What brand of 53c875 card is that ? What's the chip revision of the 53c875 chip ? I definitely need some detailed error message information, not tens of lines, but at least all the numbers (and some text fragments) from the first 5 lines that indicate a problem ... > I then went to 2.1.7 and it worked just great, so that's what we'll > obviously have to run on ripcord for awhile. :-) Well, then please send a verbose boot message log from a 2.1.7 boot ... Guess that will answer most of the questions I forgot to include above :) > Stefan - please let me know how you want to procede on this. Also, I > have an extra one of these cards lying around and if you'd like to > have it, just ask and I'll have it FedEx'd to you. I can understand > that these cards are somewhat new (especially in WIDE) so you probably > don't have one available for testing. Well, I've even got two, by now :) (One was contributed by Larry M. Augustin (www.varesearch.com), who is selling Linux boxes with the BSD NCR driver as ported by Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>. He wanted to have the driver tested with an SDMS BIOS based 875 card, too, in addition to my Tekram DC390F, and just sent one over! Larry was also very helpful by sending new Symbios docs, too, whenever he got ahold of them ...) And I bought an Ultra-Wide IBM DORS 2GB drive for testing, too, half a year ago. And it does work fine under -current (or I couldn't even compile a new kernel, since it holds my source tree :), and the Atlas should have even less of a problem ... (The 2.2 and -current drivers are very similar. But you may want top try building a kernel with the -current driver, anyway, or just once try to boot from a -current boot floppy ...) Regards, STefan
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