Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 02:26:15 +0100 From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) To: Daniel Leeds <cosmos@sponsor.octet.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ncr scsi broke? Message-ID: <199601250126.AA22164@Sysiphos> In-Reply-To: Daniel Leeds <cosmos@sponsor.octet.com> "ncr scsi broke?" (Jan 24, 14:10)
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On Jan 24, 14:10, Daniel Leeds wrote: } Subject: ncr scsi broke? } okay, i figured it out, i had to add the wd controller even though i dont } have any ide disks. No, there shouldn't be a need, if there are no IDE devices. } problem two: the ncr driver is hosed in 2.1 release. it will not } recognize any of our disks or the controller with a 2.1 kernel. } however, a 2.0.5 kernel sees them fine and boots fine. This is more likely a PCI probe problem, than a NCR problem. Could you please be more specific about the failure mode ? Is there any PCI chip found at all ? Please enter "-v" at the "Boot: " prompt, and send me all the numbers in the lines staring with "pcibus_setup()". } what happened between the two? anyone else have this problem with ncr } scsi controllers (pci) Yes, a few other people with broken PCI chip sets. The Compaq chip sets have been making trouble (at probe time, they seem to work fine, once the system is running). I had to add quite some special code to support earlier versions, but found it would not work with a more recent one ... There was one report of a problem with a ALI based Pentium. All these problems will be solved by using the PCI probe code from FreeBSD-current (/sys/i386/isa/pcibus.c). If you can recompile your kernel with them, then let me know, whether this sooves your problem. If you have both 2.0.5 and 2.1 on the same system, then you might be able to write a new kernel on the 2.1 root partition frim 2.0.5. In this case, I might be able to send you a kernel with the new boot probe for you to try ... Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>
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