From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jun 16 14:21:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay02.chello.nl (relay02.chello.nl [212.83.68.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E241437C0CA for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:21:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@chello.nl) Received: from chello.nl ([213.46.78.184]) by relay02.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 2ee4e7c625482f2f2a1950a80f6c8d58) with ESMTP id <20000616212104.YWPN33.relay02@chello.nl>; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 23:21:04 +0200 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by chello.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA13569; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 23:21:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 23:21:19 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= Cc: Alec Wolman , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: does the sym driver work with the xp1000 pci scsi controller? Message-ID: <20000616232119.B13470@freebie.wbnet> Reply-To: wc.bulte@chello.nl References: <200006160538.WAA43663@miles.cs.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from groudier@club-internet.fr on Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 10:42:19PM +0200 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by chello.nl id XAA13569 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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