Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:16:37 +0100 From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= <groudier@free.fr> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, Frank Altpeter <frank@altpeter.de> Subject: Re: SCSI parity error detected Message-ID: <20020212211637.L74623@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <20020211213743.N1867-100000@gerard>; from groudier@free.fr on Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:53:55PM %2B0100 References: <20020211235534.G57760@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20020211213743.N1867-100000@gerard>
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As Gérard Roudier wrote: > Dawicontrol uses proprietary BIOS and setup area not supported by > the driver. Their BIOS very probably knows that the upper lines of > the 53c875 that is _wide_ are not connected to the SCSI BUS. That would be my guess, too. > But the sym driver does not detect this. This could be achieved, for > example, by providing a specific sub-vendor id. But for now, I > donnot know if their controller provides such information. Hmm, maybe Frank still has the output of a verbose boot that includes the PCI registers... > In order to check the possible Wide nego. issue, the driver source can be > hacked, for example, as follows: > > --- sym_conf.h.orig Sun Dec 2 16:21:07 2001 > +++ sym_conf.h Mon Feb 11 21:49:46 2002 > @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ > /* > * Max wide order. > */ > -#define SYM_SETUP_MAX_WIDE (1) > +#define SYM_SETUP_MAX_WIDE (0) Ah, so see my other mail, that would be the required tunable e. g. for the device hints... -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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