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Date:      Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:16:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Alec Wolman <wolman@cs.washington.edu>
Cc:        groudier@club-internet.fr, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: does the sym driver work with the xp1000 pci scsi controller? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006161413560.2928-100000@semuta.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <200006162113.OAA45907@miles.cs.washington.edu>

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> 
> 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?

Yes- this is related to the Xp1000 port, not the Sym driver. And, no, I don't
know whether it's been fixed.

It doesn't really matter, though, because insofar as I know, the XP1000
doesn't have an onboard SYM- it has a Qlogic ISP chip. But you don't have to
attach to that (which does, btw, have problems in FreeBSD 4.0 that are still
not quite resolved). You can use the onboard IDE connections or blow one of
your PCI slots for either a Sym or another Qlogic card.

-matt




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