Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:13:02 -0700 From: "Alec Wolman" <wolman@cs.washington.edu> To: groudier@club-internet.fr Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: does the sym driver work with the xp1000 pci scsi controller? Message-ID: <200006162113.OAA45907@miles.cs.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: Message from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= <groudier@club-internet.fr> of "Fri, 16 Jun 2000 22:42:19 %2B0200." <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006162230060.1656-100000@linux.local>
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> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Alec Wolman wrote:
>
> > The Compaq XP1000 comes with a pci scsi controller that I believe
> > uses a symbios 83C895 chip. As of 4.0-RELEASE, the HARDWARE.TXT
> > notes clearly state that this compaq scsi controller does not work.
> > However, there have been many fixes to the sym driver since 4.0-RELEASE,
> > and I was wondering if it works now?
>
> You probably misunderstood my CVS log texts or may-be you were expected a
> chinese version of the logs to also be made available.
> There is no serious bug in the sym driver from March 4.0-RELEASE that
> prevents it from working just fine for the SYM53C895 and probably for
> everything different from the SYM53C1010-66. You may want to let me know
> what is unclear for you in the output of `cvs log' since the RELEASE and I
> will try to explain you what the change was intended to do. Btw, if the
> driver had been as broken as you seem to think, for sure flooded with PRs
> I would have been.
Perhaps this will make my question clearer. The following notes are
from HARDWARE.TXT, in the section talking about the XP1000:
" Expansion:
Don't try to use NCR/Symbios-chip based SCSI adapters in the PCI slots
connected to hose 1. There is a not-yet-found FreeBSD bug that prevents
this from working correctly. "
So my questions is, do any of the recent changes to the sym driver fix
this problem. Or, is the problem with some other component of the OS?
Alec
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