Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 12:29:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer) Cc: junkmail@pht.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.0.5-950622-SNAP on a big machine Message-ID: <199507281929.MAA02136@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <510.806953220@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Jul 28, 95 06:40:20 pm
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> > In message <Pine.LNX.3.91.950728084259.6570A-100000@exodus.pht.com>, Brad Midgl > ey writes: > >bt0: Bt946C/ 0-PCI/EISA/VLB(32bit) bus > >bt0: reading board settings, busmastering, int=10 > >bt0: version 4.23, sync, parity, 32 mbxs, 32 ccbs > > Hmm. Rod seems to be the expert on these cards. Rod? :-) expert, well, okay, yea, I suppose. More like I have learned to hate them the more I try to get the problems fixed. And BusLogic is now far far down and clear off of my even considered as a product to sell list. They have made interface changes between the card and the host, and can not even provide me with documentation on what the changes are at each revision of the card :-(. You have a revision A card with 4.23 firmware, probably about a 4.83 or 4.84 bios here. As long as the board works with your motherboard correctly (ie, you can get past the bloody SCSI Select stuff) do _NOT_ upgrade it to the newer revision E (4.25J/4.92E) card!! There are serious problems with FreeBSD and the newer cards at this time in _some_ systems. If the card worked fine with a previous release of FreeBSD let us assume for the time being we do not have a bt946 hardware problem and let us not touch that piece of hardware for fear of introducing an unknown into the equation. Now that I have your revision information let me go back and look over and reply to the other email on this particular scsi related problem. > > >yes, I did reboot and the kernel saw the card, ifconfiged it, etc., but > >net traffic just wouldn't go through it. unplugging the smc from the net > >even produced a: > > >Jul 26 16:23:38 gandalf /kernel: ed0: device timeout Check that you have the IRQ of the ed0 device assigned to the ISA bus in the PCI P-n-P configuration menu of the BIOS setup for you machine. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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