Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 22:43:35 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: tom@haven.uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Cc: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Buslogic? Message-ID: <199504260543.WAA01328@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950425223025.18088F-100000@haven.uniserve.com> from "Tom Samplonius" at Apr 25, 95 10:34:50 pm
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> > > On Tue, 25 Apr 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > If you can get into AutoSCSI with JP4 and JP5 installed, then leave > > it set that way. This is the factory default, and what I have found > > to be the most common working setup for the card. > > Unless things have changed very recently, I don't think this is still > the case. My 946C was shipped directly from Buslogic last week, and has both > JP4 and JP5 removed and it specifed in the manual that this is the factory > setting. The manual also goes on to say that you may need to change > these jumpers for "non-compliant" motherboards only, but gives no > intruction on how to identify a "non-compliant" motherboard! Looks as if Bus Logic has chaned the default settings from the factory, either way both manuals state you might have to change them for non-compliant motherboards. A truely fully compliant PCI motherboard and card should work with the jumpers in ANY possition! By your own admission it fails on your card if you change them, this means someone some place is not compliant! FYI, PCI is about to go to rev 2.1 in May, suppose to fix the ambiguous parts of the spec that are causing all these problem. I don't think it is so much as being ``conformant'' as it is being ``compatibly conformant''. Some people interpretted the spec one way, others another way, boom, the user gets caught in the middle. Both are technically conformant, but not compatible :-(. One thing that bothers me about Bus Logic, is they keep pointing fingers at MB manufactures but yet they have reved the card majorly once (bt946S to bt946c) and are now at rev E of the artwork and what, 4.25J of the firmware and 4.86 of the BIOS. If it is the motherboards fault, how come Bus Logic keeps changing there design, and changes BIOS revs faster than I change my shorts? -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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