Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 17:42:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Call for testers for ThunderLAN ethernet driver Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505173809.1260A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <19980505232712.02077@mi.uni-koeln.de>
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On Tue, 5 May 1998, Stefan Esser wrote: > On 1998-05-05 12:52 -0500, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> wrote: > > This has an NCR controller embedded in it also, but not the 53c875 or > > anything like it. Wasn't there some kind of NCR Ethernet/SCSI combo chip > > available at one time? That may be what this is. I'll poke my head in > > Yes, there is one, its a FastEthernet/Ultra-SCSI chip, though. > But what you have is most probably a Lance (PCI chip is lnc1, > since lnc0 is reserved for a possible ISA card) and an AMD > 53c974 compatible SCSI engine. That's the AMD Ethernet+SCSI > Combo chip, and it is known to work under 2.2.x and -current. > The SCSI part is supported by the "amd" driver, which in fact > is derived from the FreeBSD sources released by Tekram for > their DC-390 / DC-390T host adapter cards (the 390W, 390F and > 390U are based on NCR chips, though). Thank you kindly, I'm going to have to look into this. I know it isn't the FastEthernet+UltraSCSI you mention, because this is 10Mbit Ether and Fast SCSI. I don't even think PCI was a dream when this box was out. Come to think of it, it did have "AMD", not NCR, stamped on top. :-) I think my problem was that the EISA config threw the port ranges way off from 'normal'. > Please send me a verbose boot message log (boot with "-v"), > if you can't get both the Ethernet and SCSI functionality to > work. Will do. I might have to do some SCSI recabling anyway to get our tape drive off the same bus as the HD, so another SCSI bus I can plug into will be a major plus. Thanks again! -- Chris Dillon --- cdillon@inter-linc.net --- cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us /* FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and compatibles (SPARC and Alpha under development) (http://www.freebsd.org) */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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