From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jun 16 14:13: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from june.cs.washington.edu (june.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9292D37C07A for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:13:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wolman@cs.washington.edu) Received: from miles.cs.washington.edu (miles.cs.washington.edu [128.95.4.177]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/0.3j) with ESMTP id OAA47278; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:13:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wolman@cs.washington.edu) Received: from miles.cs.washington.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by miles.cs.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA45907; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:13:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wolman@miles.cs.washington.edu) Message-Id: <200006162113.OAA45907@miles.cs.washington.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: groudier@club-internet.fr Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: does the sym driver work with the xp1000 pci scsi controller? In-Reply-To: Message from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= of "Fri, 16 Jun 2000 22:42:19 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:13:02 -0700 From: "Alec Wolman" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message