Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 18:23:22 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: FreeBSD-SCSI@freebsd.org Subject: odd 875 problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971230180823.288n-100000@localhost>
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I'm scratching my head on this one .... Here's the scenario ... Tyan Tomcat I, Pentium/166 with 32M, Asus 875 controller. Installed FreeBSD on the 2 each 2G Fujitsum drives on the wide connector, no problem. Needed Win95 for a project, so took a borrowed narrow 2 G drive, address 0 on the narrow connector, and put Win95 on it. Again, no problem yet. At the end of the install, I booted Win95 via floppy, and used the driver disks that came with the Asus 875 controller to put the right drivers into Win 95. At the end of the 875 disk setup procedure, I used the offered option to reboot the system. That was the last it worked. During the 875 boot, at the end of the SCAM protocol, the 875 BIOS always printed a banner that gave the drive info, but it flashed up on screen for less than a second, so I could never read it. Note that printing this banner is the last thing the system did before accessing the disks or floppies for boot. Well, I can read it now, because the controller hangs at this point with the red LED on the card burning solid. I have on this thing 2 drives on the wide connector, and a cdrom and a drive on the narrow connector, and none of the drive access lights come on. I have tried all different combinations of drives (just the wide connector, just the narrow one, just the wide with one drive only, etc, etc) and the failure mode doesn't change. The only way the 875 gets past the SCAM protocol still living is if there is no connector (wide or narrow) installed at all. Doesn't even get to the floppy. BTW, that banner that the 875 hangs just after printing? It's been completely correct, no matter how I change the drives. What makes this more confusing is, I have a 825 here, and it works ok on that machine. I've tried swapping the 875 for a different one, the trouble stays the same. I've tried zeroing out the cmos memory, no change. I've tried all different combinations of use for the two PCI slots (one video, one the 875) no change. The Tyan MB's onboard IDEs are disabled. Anyone got any silly suggestions as to what I could try next? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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