From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 29 11:29:46 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA06522 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 29 Jul 1995 11:29:46 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA06516 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 1995 11:29:43 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA04333; Sat, 29 Jul 1995 11:29:27 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199507291829.LAA04333@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: 2.0.5-950622-SNAP on a big machine To: junkmail@pht.com (Brad Midgley) Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 11:29:27 -0700 (PDT) Cc: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Brad Midgley" at Jul 29, 95 10:01:38 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2168 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > > 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. > > unfortunately, there is a new thing in the equation. :-(, okay, we need to treat it as such then. > The smc net card > wouldn't work, so I popped it out, put in a 3com, and now it works. The > system is running now so I don't dare to poke it. We've been running > about 24 hours with only one (intentional) reboot so it would see the high > 32m (yay) :-) > > 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. > > yes, both the 3com and smc I had set to irq5, which is reserved for isa in > pnp. As long as the 3com code is pretty solid now, I'm happy to leave it. > I think it's time to just cross my fingers. Good. > some asides: > > we do have an a2940w, but the external connector on it isn't the standard > "mini-50" it looks more like a "mini-68". Do you know if I can just get > an adapter cable for my external (non-wide) chain? Not sure, depends on if the aha2940W allows you to terminate just the upper 8 bits of the external bus. If it does allow that you can get a SCSI-III 68 pin to SCSI-II 50 pin cable and do this. If the board does not allow you to terminate the upper 8 bits your stuck. > do scsi devices on a second controller just show up as [r]sd7-[r]sd13?? By default they will show up at sd(n+1) where n is the last scsi disk on the first controller. See ``man 4 sd'' for how to hardwire down sd unit numbers. > (ie, same major device number, just incrementing the minor number?) How > does the machine decide which controller is first? First one probed, depends on config file ordering. > where can I find documentation on /sbin/dset and the kernel -q option? There is no man pages for these, read the src :-(. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD