Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 07:22:23 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Buslogic BT-445S problems Message-ID: <20020418072222.N69202@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20020417121328.Q42854-100000@sasami.jurai.net>; from winter@jurai.net on Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 12:16:44PM -0400 References: <20020417201714.A56049@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <20020417121328.Q42854-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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On 2002-Apr-17 12:16:44 -0400, "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>> bt0 at port 0x330-0x333 irq 11 drq -1 on isa0
> ^^^^^^
>Is this for real or just a transcription error?
That's real. /sys/dev/buslogic/bt.c:bt_port_probe() contains:
...
if (bt->model[0] == '5') {
/* DMA settings only make sense for ISA cards */
...
} else {
/* VL/EISA/PCI DMA */
info->drq = -1;
}
so I assume the probe message is correct and reasonable.
>
>> bt0: BT-445S FW Rev. 3.36 Narrow SCSI Host Adapter, SCSI ID 7, 30CCBs
>> bt0: Using Strict Round Robin Mailbox Mode
>
>Hummm... The source mentions that firmware revision 3.37 is good and all
>others need a workaround; it could be the workaround code isn't doing the
>right thing.
The only comment I can find is in bt_isa.c:bt_isa_attach() - which
refers to a hardware bug in older h/w revisions (I'm fairly certain I
have a RevD card - which is affected). F/W 3.37 only runs on RevE
cards and is being used to guess the hardware revision. This bug only
affects cards where the BIOS is enabled - and I don't have the BIOS
enabled so it shouldn't affect me.
>> I noticed that enabling the card BIOS makes it just lock up after
>> the "card found at 0x330" message, but I'm not sure if this is
>> just because it can't find any SCSI disks to boot.
>
>If the BIOS won't come up that sounds like something outside of FreeBSD
>drvier issues.
I tend to agree, but I'm not sure how the card is expected to behave
in this situation. The manual only discusses booting off SCSI disks
attached to the card - which I don't have. There's no indication of
what would happen if the BIOS is enabled when there aren't any
bootable disks. I was hoping someone else might still have a system
with a BT-445 and be able to confirm the normal behaviour.
Peter
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