Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 12:50:50 -0800 From: "Guy F. Boyd" <rsw@crl.com> Message-ID: <199903022050.AA19440@crl.crl.com>
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Hello all,
Problems with a TYAN S1830 AT Motherboard - sio ports probed ,
but do not work.
Chipset: Intel 82371EB
Intel 82443BX
Amibios
FreeBSD 2.2.6
I have a reliably running 2.2.6 system which I am trying
to upgrade from an ASUS P55T2P4 Motherboard / Pentium 200,
to any board which will accept a 400MHZ + processor , with
an equal ( or greater ? ) number of ISA / PCI Slots. One
of the hardware restrictions I am presented with ( for
the time being anyway ) is that the boards to be considered
must be AT form factor.
The board I am currently testing is a TYAN S1830 Tsunami AT
Board. This behemoth of PC real - estate has 3 ISA slots ,
3 PCI slots , 1 shared ISA / PCI slot , AGP , and the standard
onboard COM , LPT and IDE controller stuff. Because we boot
SCSI , and there is no on-board SCSI bios as there is with the
ASUS board , we use an NCR based card with an on-board SCSI
bios instead. At vaious stages, we remove all of our other
non - essential cards except for the S3 based video card , for
testing purposes. With a standard FreeBSD 2.2.6 "everything
on the disk" canned installation , the TYAN board appears to
boot fine and Chuckie comes up grinning ( figuretively
speaking ) as always. So here's the problem :
The dmesg output shown below leads me to believe that there
are no probelms probing sio0 and sio1. However , once the
system is up and running, any tests of the on-board serial
ports fail. My simplest port test is to connect a verified
properly working rodent-of-choice to the port being tested ,
then `cat` the port (cuaaX ) to the terminal while spinning
the trackball. Success yields funny looking characters
( rodent - speak for hi - bits set I think ) - failure yields
no output.
Different port speeds are tried , and even the BIOS settings
are confirmed to be ( apparently ) correct.
Various other plug - in hardware ( such as de0 ethernet driver)
work fine (thats how I got the dmesg output off
of the machine eventually.)
My question is this: aside from the not - too - far fetched
conclusion that I've overlooked something, has anyone successfully
made all of the on -board hardware work on this board work with any
release ( Or has anyone else given up on this board )? A recent
search of the archives yields no direct mention of this model number.
I'd like to presume a singular hardware failure on this board,
but I'd hate to have cash tied up in 2 of them if this model
number board is really a boat - anchor.
Thanks In Advance-
<rsw@crl.com>
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_______________________________________DMESG OUTPUT FOLLOWS_____________________________________________
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-1998 FreeBSD Inc.
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel:
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 15 15:57:25 GMT 1999
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: root@myname.my.domain:/usr/src/sys/compile/TYAN
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: CPU: Pentium Pro (400.91-MHz 686-class CPU)
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x652 Stepping=2
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: Features=0x183fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,<b16>,<b17>,MMX,<b24>>
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes)
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: avail memory = 30441472 (29728K bytes)
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: chip0 <generic PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=7190 subclass=0)> rev 3 on pci0:0:0
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: chip1 <generic PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=7191 subclass=4)> rev 3 on pci0:1:0
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: chip2 <Intel 82371AB PCI-ISA bridge> rev 2 on pci0:7:0
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: chip3 <Intel 82371AB IDE interface> rev 1 on pci0:7:1
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: chip4 <Intel 82371AB USB interface> rev 1 int d irq ?? on pci0:7:2
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: chip5 <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> rev 2 on pci0:7:3
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: de0 <Digital 21041 Ethernet> rev 33 int a irq 14 on pci0:16:0
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: de0: 21041 [10Mb/s] pass 2.1
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: de0: address 00:c0:f0:21:a3:87
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: vga0 <VGA-compatible display device> rev 1 int a irq ?? on pci0:17:0
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: ncr0 <ncr 53c815 fast10 scsi> rev 4 int a irq 12 on pci0:18:0
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: ncr0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: (ncr0:0:0): "QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM1280S 300X" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): Direct-Access
Feb 15 15:58:50 myname /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8)
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: 1222MB (2503872 512 byte sectors)
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: (ncr0:6:0): "NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:461 2.3d" type 5 removable SCSI 2
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: cd0(ncr0:6:0): CD-ROM
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: cd0(ncr0:6:0): asynchronous.
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: cd present [323780 x 2048 byte records]
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: Probing for devices on PCI bus 1:
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: ed0 not found at 0x280
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: fe0 not found at 0x300
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: sio0: type 16550A
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: sio1: type 16550A
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: lp0: TCP/IP capable interface
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: lpt1 not found at 0xffffffff
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: mse0 not found at 0x23c
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: psm0 not found at 0x60
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: wdc0 not found at 0x1f0
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: wdc1 not found at 0x170
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: bt0 not found at 0x330
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: uha0 not found at 0x330
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: aha0 not found at 0x330
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: aic0 not found at 0x340
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: nca0 not found at 0x1f88
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: nca1 not found at 0x350
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: sea0 not found
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: wt0 not found at 0x300
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: mcd0 not found at 0x300
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: matcdc0 not found at 0x230
Feb 15 15:58:51 myname /kernel: scd0 not found at 0x230
Feb 15 15:58:52 myname /kernel: ep0 not found at 0x300
Feb 15 15:58:52 myname /kernel: ex0 not found at 0xffffffff
Feb 15 15:58:52 myname /kernel: le0 not found at 0x300
Feb 15 15:58:52 myname /kernel: lnc0 not found at 0x280
Feb 15 15:58:52 myname /kernel: ze0 not found at 0x300
Feb 15 15:58:52 myname /kernel: zp0 not found at 0x300
Feb 15 15:58:52 myname /kernel: npx0 flags 0x1 on motherboard
Feb 15 15:58:52 myname /kernel: npx0: INT 16 interface
Feb 15 15:58:52 myname /kernel: de0: enabling 10baseT port
Feb 15 15:58:52 myname /kernel: changing root device to st0s1a
Feb 15 15:59:02 myname login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0
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