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 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 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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