From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Aug 2 10:28:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from charlotte.geac.com (charlotte.geac.com [208.144.226.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 201561530A for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:28:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from n.spence@geac.com) Received: (qmail 14095 invoked from network); 2 Aug 1999 17:25:39 -0000 Received: from aramis.geac.com (HELO b21bis.clsi.us.geac.com) (208.144.226.1) by 192.168.226.130 with SMTP; 2 Aug 1999 17:25:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 16448 invoked from network); 2 Aug 1999 17:25:29 -0000 Received: from exchange.eci.us.geac.com (HELO ilpostino.eci.us.geac.com) (192.168.70.13) by b21bis.us.geac.com with SMTP; 2 Aug 1999 17:25:29 -0000 Received: by exchange.eci.us.geac.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:27:19 -0700 Message-ID: <85D42D7EE2DAD2119CD400A0C9E1004F64F651@exchange.eci.us.geac.com> From: Nikolaus Spence To: "'Matthew N. Dodd'" Cc: "'hardware@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: EISA DPT raid controllers Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:27:19 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have the 2022a card. The system it's going in is an old AST premmia P/60. It has no IDE drives in it so will I need to make a new kernel floppy to start it up or should I just slam some IDE disks in there to make life easy? Nikolaus -----Original Message----- From: Matthew N. Dodd [mailto:winter@jurai.net] Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 6:13 PM To: Nikolaus Spence Cc: 'freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: EISA DPT raid controllers On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Nikolaus Spence wrote: > is there anything special I would need to do to probe an EISA DPT raid > controller at startup? There's nothing in the visual kernal config > for it except under PCI. Well... Heres the deal. The DPT EISA controllers appear to need some sort of frobbing outside of what FreeBSD does to allow their config registers to be read as specified by the EISA .cfg file that ships with them. I've been unable to find out exactly what this sequence is. So the DPT EISA driver in the system is more or less broken. However. I have a hacked up dpt_eisa.c file that gets around this. What version of FreeBSD are you running and what is the model # of your card? -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message