Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:07:53 -0600 (MDT) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> To: "Robert G. Brown" <rgb@phy.duke.edu> Cc: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pre10 on a 2940u2w still shows BRKADRINT Message-ID: <199809202207.QAA03191@narnia.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980920130300.8938A-100000@ganesh.phy.duke.edu>
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>> Do all the machines report the same SCSI BIOS revision at bootup though? > > They do, but it is all the Dell number and stuff. This makes be think > that Adaptec is giving Dell the BIOS code and Dell is doing a bit of an > OEM add-on hack (minimally installing their own logo/revision number, > right?:-) and then flashing the systems. Hopefully the service rep will > have software for re-flashing the onboard BIOS and the like, in case > that is what is corrupted. The OEM almost always has to gen their own BIOS. This is due to the 10s of different configurations you can use for things like non-volatile setting storage, termination, bus configurations, etc. Adaptec makes this a cookbook process though. Did you ever verify that FreeBSD would not boot on these machines? CAM has been incorperated into the -current source tree, so you should steal a boot floppy from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/3.0BETA-LATESTDATE/floppies/ or something like that. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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