Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 23:21:19 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= <groudier@club-internet.fr> Cc: Alec Wolman <wolman@cs.washington.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: does the sym driver work with the xp1000 pci scsi controller? Message-ID: <20000616232119.B13470@freebie.wbnet> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006162230060.1656-100000@linux.local>; from groudier@club-internet.fr on Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 10:42:19PM %2B0200 References: <200006160538.WAA43663@miles.cs.washington.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006162230060.1656-100000@linux.local>
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On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 10:42:19PM +0200, Gérard Roudier wrote: > > > 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? 4.0R HARDWARE.TXT? The only thing that I wrote in there that faintly appears relevant is: "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. Not all VGA cards will work behind the PCI-PCI bridge (so in slots 4 & 5). Only cards that implement VGA-legacy adressing correctly will work. Workaround is to put the VGA card 'before' the bridge." Where does it say the 83C895 does not work? It says that there are problems with NCR/Symbios based cards *ON HOSE 1*. Not that they don't work at all. The string 83C895 does not even occur in HARDWARE.TXT at all... > 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. > > > If so, does anyone want to build me some boot floppies :-) > > > > Alec -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org "Do, or do not. There is no try" wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl - Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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