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, G=E9rard Roudier wrote: >=20 >=20 > On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Alec Wolman wrote: >=20 > > 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-RELEA= SE, > > and I was wondering if it works now? 4.0R HARDWARE.TXT? The only thing that I wrote in there that faintly appe= ars 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 t= his 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 adressin= g correctly will work. Workaround is to put the VGA card 'before' the bridg= e." Where does it say the 83C895 does not work? It says that there are proble= ms 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 kno= w > what is unclear for you in the output of `cvs log' since the RELEASE an= d 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 P= Rs > I would have been. >=20 > > If so, does anyone want to build me some boot floppies :-) > >=20 > > Alec --=20 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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