Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 20:43:49 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: dan@langille.org Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard?= Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sym SCSI card problems during settle wait Message-ID: <200012070243.eB72hnF11399@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> of "Thu, 07 Dec 2000 14:28:29 %2B1300." <200012070129.OAA22551@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>
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"Dan Langille" writes: > btw: I've been told this offline: > > "That's a DFI motherboard, and you may not be able to boot from a SCSI > drive with the SC200 because it doesn't have its own BIOS - it uses the > BIOS on an ASUS motherboard (for which it was designed). It should > work OK as a non-booting controller (for CDROM, scanner, etc.), > however." Is it possible the BIOS inits something the sym driver doesn't? As to BIOS on the MB, in the olden days NCR had a semi-successful kit for grafting the NCR BIOS routines into flashable BIOS. May have pulled it as many trashed their BIOS good and dead. Maybe DFI offers an updated BIOS with NCR BIOS? As I think I stated earlier, the Symbios chips ending with 5 have the proper glue for BIOS PROM/Flash on the card. Dan, haven't looked into their policies on foreign orders but their name is Centrix *International*, and they offer Symbios-brand '825 cards for US $39. http://www.centrix-intl.com/. Have purchased from them in the past and not been disappointed. Well, *am* disappointed they are out of the '875 cards. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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