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Date:      Sun, 24 Oct 1999 19:01:52 +0300
From:      Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee>
To:        Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: i386/14492: FreeBSD won't install/work with an Asus SC875 SCSI card
Message-ID:  <19991024190152.A6973@myhakas.matti.ee>
In-Reply-To: <199910241510.IAA99627@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Chris Costello on Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 08:10:01AM -0700
References:  <199910241510.IAA99627@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 08:10:01AM -0700, Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> wrote:

> The following reply was made to PR i386/14492; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
> To: fargher@aebc.com
> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: i386/14492: FreeBSD won't install/work with an Asus SC875 SCSI card
> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 10:03:13 -0500
> 
>  On Sun, Oct 24, 1999, fargher@aebc.com wrote:
>  >   ncr0 (Symbios 810 chip; the card is a Gigabyte GA-410) is no problem.  
>  > But ncr1 is an Asus SC875 card, based upon the Symbios 875 chip.  When 
>  > I try to install FreeBSD, the installer balks at this card, trying large 
>  > numbers of hex numbers (addresses?) in pairs.  It takes a very long time
>  > to exhaust the list (especially as each pair of hex numbers is tried 4
>  > times), after which the installer gives up on this card.  Seeing as how
>  > all my hard drives are on this card, I can't install FreeBSD.
>  
>     I've installed FreeBSD 3.1 on this system with the following
>  ncr controller:
>  
>  ncr0: <ncr 53c875j fast20 wide scsi> irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci0
>  
>     It is a Diamond FirePort 40.  Seems that the Asus card may not
>  be completely compatible with the ncr driver.

We had our 2.2.7-RELEASE box running using this particular ASUS card,
then upgraded to 3.2 and 3.3-STABLE. The card ended up in my own machine
which runs -current. We had some minor problems, but nothing which can't
be caused by bad cable or somesuch.
-- 

Vallo Kallaste
vallo@matti.ee


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