From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Mar 7 15: 0:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from Sisyphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Sisyphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D862D14D32; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 15:00:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from se@dialup124.zpr.uni-koeln.de) Received: from dialup124.zpr.Uni-Koeln.DE (dialup124.zpr.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.219.124]) by Sisyphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA11588; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 00:00:34 +0100 (MET) Received: (from se@localhost) by dialup124.zpr.Uni-Koeln.DE (8.9.3/8.6.9) id WAA01185; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 22:23:01 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 22:23:00 +0100 From: Stefan Esser To: David Kelly Cc: Tom Torrance at home , scsi@freebsd.org, Stefan Esser Subject: Re: ncr timeout w/ RELENG_3 Message-ID: <19990306222300.B386@dialup124.mi.uni-koeln.de> Reply-To: se@freebsd.org References: <199903020239.UAA01989@nospam.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <199903020239.UAA01989@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 08:39:55PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 1999-03-01 20:39 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > I wonder how much affect the NCR BIOS has on a running FreeBSD system? > Could it initialize something funny? Or load misbehaving code in the > SCSI chip? Am thinking if there is a BIOS upgrade for your board then > this might be the time to give it a try. The driver used to initialize just about any NCR register (killing any effect the BIOS might have had ;-) but does now preserve some of the settings. But there really should not be much of a difference, whether you boot from one version of SDMS or another. > My Asus SC875 has Symbios's 4.0.11 BIOS, but there is a 4.3 (?) > available for the download. *Had* to apply that upgrade to cards at work > to get them to work in another Asus motherboard. I understand that to mean that the BIOS update was required to make the system recognize the SCSI chip and load even the primary boot block ? If there is any system where the SCSI BIOS version makes a difference to the running kernel, please let me know! Regards, STefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message