From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 14 06:31:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA02388 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 06:31:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uswgco3.uswc.uswest.com (uswgco3.uswest.com [206.196.133.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA02379 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 06:31:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from onewnan@uswest.com) Received: from egate2.mnet.uswest.com (mailgate.uswc.uswest.com [151.117.138.135]) by uswgco3.uswc.uswest.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA10654; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 07:30:38 -0600 (MDT) Received: from easthub.mnet.uswest.com (easthub.mnet.uswest.com [151.117.26.86]) by egate2.mnet.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id IAA27943; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 08:30:36 -0500 (CDT) Received: from notes.mnet.uswest.com (claven.uswc.uswest.com [151.119.114.137]) by easthub.mnet.uswest.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id IAA12180; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 08:21:26 -0500 Received: by notes.mnet.uswest.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.1 (569.2 2-6-1998)) id 87256641.004A8DA4 ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 07:34:19 -0600 X-Lotus-FromDomain: USWEST From: "Owen Newnan" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG cc: Craig Struble Message-ID: <87256641.0047B2E8.00@notes.mnet.uswest.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 07:22:54 -0600 Subject: Booting off SyJet SCSI on Titanium w/ ATI enabled Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When my motherboard died, my local upgrade shop recommended the QDI Titanium 1b as a good and especially reliable replacement. I searched the FreeBSD archives and was disturbed to find that Craig Struble had bought such a board and was unable to boot off SCSI with his ATA drives enabled. I contacted him and confirmed he did get that to work. This concerned me because I'm used to booting several OSs including FreeBSD off my Syjet. After thinking it over I bit the bullet and bought the board. I find however that I am able to boot off the SyJet but I must select the non-default "Resources Controlled by Auto" option in the (Award) BIOS. It's not sufficient to specify the IRQ as "PCI/ISA PnP"; the HBA and it's drives are accessible that way but the SCSI BIOS fails to initialize. This also requires the HBA configured to "treat removable drives as fixed." My configuration for the record is: QDI Titanium 1b+ Motherboard with K6/266 2 ATA drives on primary controller, ATAPI on secondary Adaptec AHA-2940AU HBA on IRQ 10 with SyJet, CD and Zip on IDs 4,3,5 respectively Boot Manager is System Commander Deluxe By the way, for some reason the FreeBSD default boot prompt points to the wrong drive with FreeBSD on the SyJet in this configuration; I have to enter sd(0,a)kernel. Note: I'm not currently subscribed to questions, so kindly send me email if you need more info about this... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message