From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue May 27 07:53:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA16561 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Tue, 27 May 1997 07:53:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA16555; Tue, 27 May 1997 07:52:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id IAA11201; Tue, 27 May 1997 08:52:52 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.znep.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA12512; Tue, 27 May 1997 08:52:03 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 08:52:02 -0600 (MDT) From: Marc Slemko Reply-To: Marc Slemko To: Stefan Esser cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, current-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: ncr driver working well with 53c875? In-Reply-To: <19970527130651.56313@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 27 May 1997, Stefan Esser wrote: > On May 26, Marc Slemko wrote: > > I have run both a DC-390U (ultra) and a DC-390F (ultra wide) under FreeBSD > > without any real problems. The U isn't wide, but still uses the 875 > > chipset. > > > > Note that the Tekram's BIOS doesn't like disks partitioned using FreeBSD's > > dedicated mode and will hang on boot if it sees one. > > Well, it will write a nasty complaint, and will pause for > some 10 seconds, but will eventually continue the SCSI bus > scan ... Perhaps with newer BIOSes it is fixed. I get a nasty complaint if the geometry isn't what it thinks it should be and it then continues, but with the version I was using if I used the dedicated mode it just hangs.