From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 21 21:58:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D26B915053 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 21:58:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA79127 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 21:58:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA67916 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 21:58:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 21:58:48 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: ** HEADS UP ** NCR/Symbios SCSI controller owners Message-ID: <19991221215848.A67895@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The new `sym' (Symbios) driver has been turned on in GENERIC. There is a subset of NCR chipsets which both `sym' and the `ncr' driver can own. For those controllers the `sym' driver will win out. This behavior may be changed by using the "SYM_SETUP_LP_PROBE_MAP" kernel config option. It is described as: Low Priority Probe Map (bits) -- Allows the ncr to take # precedence 1 (1<<0) -> 810a, 860 2 (1<<1) -> 825a, 875, 885, 895 4 (1<<2) -> 895a, 896, 1510d I do not expect any problems what so ever with this change, but just in case... -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message