Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 15:24:59 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> Cc: FreeBSD SCSI <freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Adaptec BIOS update with On-Board aic7880 and additional 29160 Message-ID: <20020519152458.A50807@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <20020519160314.B42731@schweikhardt.net>; from schweikh@schweikhardt.net on Sun, May 19, 2002 at 04:03:14PM %2B0200 References: <20020519160314.B42731@schweikhardt.net>
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On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 16:03:14 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > hello, world\n > > a question before I shoot myself in the foot. I've got an ASUS P2L97-S > with an on-board aic7880 and an Adaptec 29160 PCI card, e.g. > $ dmesg|grep ahc > ahc0: <Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI adapter> port 0xd000-0xd0ff > mem 0xdf800000-0xdf800fff irq 15 at device 6.0 on pci0 > ahc1: <Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> port 0xb800-0xb8ff > mem 0xdf000000-0xdf000fff irq 12 at device 11.0 on pci0 > > Of course, each of them has its own (different) bios. I want to update > the bios on the 29160, so I got the 29160_bios_3100.exe from the adaptec > support site. If I start the bios upgrade (from an OS that shall remain > nameless) will it be smart enough to not update the wrong bios? The Adaptec BIOS upgrade programs typically check the PCI ID of the chip/board against the PCI ID embedded in the BIOS file, and won't allow you to put the wrong BIOS on the wrong board. Also, most motherboards with embedded Adaptec chips (this probably applies to other vendors as well) include the Adaptec SCSI BIOS in the same image as the system BIOS. (So the bios update mechanism would probably be somewhat different for the onboard controller anyway.) Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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