From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 10 14:52:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA07585 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 14:52:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA07575; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 14:52:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA01067; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 14:52:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 14:52:08 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Stefan Esser cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ncr probe FAILS on 2.2-BETA_A! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Stefan Esser wrote: > > I'm attempting to install 2.2-BETA_A on a SiS Pentium 100 system, and the > > ncr startup locks the system up just after > > > > ncr0 waiting for devices to settle > > > > This machine works perfectly with 2.2-ALPHA. I've booted -c and reduced > > the devices to the bare necessities with no change. > > Hmm, the NCR driver changes between ALPHA and BETA are > quite simple, and mostly stylistic ... > > > ncr0 rev 3 int a irq 11 on pci0:13 > > ncr0 waiting for scsi devices to settle <-- 2.2-BETA stops here > > (ncr0:3:0): "PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-4XCE 1.00" type 5 removable SCSI 2 > > > The SCSI devices to receive the bus reset, as the lights on the CDROMs > > light up, but that's all. The floppy drive light is stuck on and the > > keyboard LEDs don't function when the lockup occurs. > > I expect this to be a problem with your chip set ... > > Perhaps you want to try booting with PCI options (write > buffers, PCI burst mode) disabled. I can try that. There is one thing I did change and that was I upgraded the CPU from a 90 to a 133, but the motherboard only does 100MHz, so it's running underclocked at the moment. I'll try fidding with the chipset options. > > > There were no changes to the system configuration between shutting down > > 2.2-ALPHA and booting the BETA floppy. > > > > Sorry for taking so long to report this; today is the only time I've had > > to try plugging in BETA. > > > > Boot -v and other information available by request. > > Please try the applied patch. If it doesn't work, then > send boot -v messages. If you have access to the CVS > tree, you may want to use the driver from 2.2-ALPHA. I > can send you a context diff, if you prefer that ... Unfortunately, this is on the boot.flp and I'm not at all set up to rebuild the system....:( Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major