Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 23:22:17 +0000 From: George Vicherek <george@ied.com> To: Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net>, "Patrick W. Bryant" <daspwb@Queequeg.Gsu.EDU>, "Robert G. Brown" <rgb@phy.duke.edu>, aic7xxx Mailing List <AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Follow up (Dell 410) Message-ID: <35BA5A99.318B1BC2@ied.com> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980724132721.1801A-100000@Queequeg.Gsu.EDU> <35B8C929.AF637D2F@dialnet.net>
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Just to give credit where it is due, I got the suggestion to disable the Adaptec BIOS from Travis Oliphant about 2 weeks back. It was just that my new ASUS P2B-LS MB was 1500 miles away so I could not test it. George Doug Ledford wrote: > > Patrick W. Bryant wrote: > > > > On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Robert G. Brown wrote: > > > > > Brilliant idea and ditto! > > > > I thought so too. Thanks to George Vichere for suggesting it. > > > > > I'll then recut an SMP kernel and (shudder) try to embed aic7xxx inside > > > instead of loading as a module. > > > > That's what I've got now (SMP and aic7xxx embedded) and it's working > > really well -- fast boot, no probs with fdisk or mkfs, all the blocks > > visible, etc. I'm a very happy person right now. > > The BIOS issue is something I hadn't tried here. The 2940U2W card I have is > running with the BIOS disabled, and always has because my boot devices are > on a 7895 on my DK440LX motherboard. But, if enabling the BIOS is enough to > make it fail, then obviously it's most likely some small setup issue that > has to be taken care of, I can get it found, and then these things will > work. Now, second issue. For now anyway, if you modify the > restart_sequencer() code to do aic_outb(p, FASTMODE | FAILDIS, SEQCTL); > instead of just doing FASTMODE, then the cards will also work with narrow > devices. So, from what we have here, it looks like people should be able to > get these things working with any devices as long as they: > > A) Make the change to the restart_sequencer() function > B) Disable the Adaptec BIOS on the Ultra2 controller. > > This makes it hard to boot from these things, but I'll get a pre-6 out in > the next day or two that hopefully will have the driver working with the > BIOS enabled and already have the other change made until I can get the > cause of that tracked down as well. > > -- > > Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net> > Opinions expressed are my own, but > they should be everybody's. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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