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Date:      Sat, 29 Jul 2000 11:49:58 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@icomtek.co.za>
To:        peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm)
Cc:        jhay@icomtek.co.za (John Hay), groudier@club-internet.fr, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/scripts dokern.sh
Message-ID:  <200007290949.e6T9nwd79125@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <200007290933.CAA52976@netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Jul 29, 2000 02:33:49 am"

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> > > 
> > > I think it is time to switch -current to sym-only.  No disrespect towards t
>     he
> > > ncr driver writer intended, but the sym driver is well maintained, robust,
> > > up-to-date, not implicated in the recurring fxp+ncr bugs, and supports all
> > > the hardware.
> > 
> > It does not support all hardware yet. I have an old 810 card that don't
> > even want to boot using the sym driver. It just go into a loop of printing
> > errors at the stage where it should probe the disks. The same machine
> > works just fine with the ncr driver.
> 
> I suppose this is a silly question, but you have reported this already,
> right?

Not so silly. :-/ I didn't realise that the sym driver was supposed to
be able to handle the older cards until I read this email. :-/
> 
> > sym0:0: ERROR (c0:0) (8-0-0) (0/3) @ (scripta 170:720d0000).
> > sym0: script cmd = 808cfd02
> > sym0: regdump: ca 00 00 03 47 00 00 1f 00 08 00 00 80 00 0f 02 00 f0 f3 01 20
>      ff ff ff.
> > sym0: PCI STATUS = 0x8100
> > (noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1): SCSI BUS reset detected.
> 

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za


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