Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 06:43:08 -0700 From: "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NCR SCSI Controller Message-ID: <19990528064308.B9059@lunatic.oneinsane.net> In-Reply-To: <199905281137.VAA05201@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au>; from Stephen McKay on Fri, May 28, 1999 at 09:37:19PM %2B1000 References: <199905271815.LAA01152@dingo.cdrom.com> <199905281137.VAA05201@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au>
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On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 09:37:19PM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: > On Thursday, 27th May 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > >Unrelated, but due to the same basic stuffup; bogus (nonstandard) > >hardware design in both cases. > > > >The NCR card has the LED connected somewhere weird, and likewise your > >onboard IDE controller has done something funny with its LED. > > > >You're both SOL, sorry. > > Ignoring the IDE for the moment... (Who knows with IDE anyway?!) > > I don't think he is SOL. My Diamond FirePort 40 has the same problem and > is cured by option SCSI_NCR_SYMBIOS_COMPAT. Stefan is just really, really > worried about the possibility of some hardware going spastic and blowing > up with this option on. > > But, I've seen this same discussion 4 times now, and NEVER has anybody said > "My card's LED didn't work. I set SCSI_NCR_SYMBIOS_COMPAT. It still doesn't > work." It works for me. It's worked for other people. As far as I know, > it always works like this: > > 1) install FreeBSD > 2) if LED works, stop here > 3) compile with option SCSI_NCR_SYMBIOS_COMPAT > Kust for the record. This did the trick for me.. I now have LED activity when the disk is accessing. TIA -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... The InSaNe One rm -rf * insane@oneinsane.net and all was null and void ------------------------------------------------------------------- Practice random acts of intelligence and senseless acts of self-control. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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