From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jun 9 08:07:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA13486 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 08:07:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from skye.icr.ac.uk (skye.icr.ac.uk [193.63.218.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA13411; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 08:07:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peters@skye.icr.ac.uk) Received: by skye.icr.ac.uk (4.1/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA25989; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 15:15:52 GMT Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 15:15:52 GMT From: peters@skye.icr.ac.uk (Dr Peter Schmidt) Message-Id: <199806091515.AA25989@skye.icr.ac.uk> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problems with NCR controller Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Begin Included Message ----- >From peters Tue Jun 9 14:55:22 1998 Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 15:43:19 +0100 From: Peter Schmidt X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-users@freebsd-uk.eu.org, peters Subject: Problems with NCR controller Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1181 X-Lines: 43 Hi, I just joined the UK FreeBSD group. So far, I have been an enthusiastic and regular user of FreeBSD. Unfortunately I ran into problems recently. These problems are related to my NCR53C810 SCSI controller. I am not quite sure, if it is a hardware and/or software problem. Anyway: my PC configuration is as follows: Pentium, Gigabyte Board, AMD 100 (133) MHZ chip 48 MByte RAM NCR53C810 SCSI Controller usual floppy drive Elsa Winner 1000Trio Graphics card disks and CD-ROM's IDE: Quantum Fireball 2.1 GByte SCSI: 1.) Toshiba CD-ROM 2.) Quantum Atlas II 2.1 GByte 3.) Quantum FireBall 4.3 GByte The SCSI bus is properly terminated. Operating Systems: FreeBSD 2.2.5 Windows NT 4.0 (service-pack 3) The problem is: the ncr-controller crashes occasionally and completely randomly with an ncr0:fatal error . It then gets a timeout and the machine hangs and must be rebooted. I do not get this failure with my Windows NT partition, wich I also installed on my PC. Does anyone have a clue what's going on? The NCR controller is about 4 years old and the Firmware version is 3.07.00. Any suggestions are welcome Regards Peter ----- End Included Message ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message