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Date:      	Tue, 25 Apr 1995 20:33:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Buslogic?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950425203107.18088B-100000@haven.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <199504260104.SAA00757@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>

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On Tue, 25 Apr 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> This is from the followind data structure at line 330 of bt742.c:
> 
> struct bt_ext_info {
> 	u_char  bus_type;	/* Host adapter bus type */
> 	u_char  bios_addr;	/* Bios Address-Not used */
> 	u_short max_seg;	/* Max segment List */
> 	u_char  num_mbx;	/* Number of mailbox */
> 	int32	mbx_base;	/* mailbox base address */
> 	struct	{
> 		u_char  resv1:2;	/* ??? */
> 		u_char	maxsync:1;	/* ON: 10MB/s , OFF: 5MB/s */
> 		u_char	resv2:2;	/* ??? */
> 		u_char	sync:1;		/* ON: Sync,  OFF: async ONLY!! */
> >>>>> HERE <<<<<< this bit is 0 for your controller for some reason :-(.
> 
> 		u_char	resv3:2;	/* ??? */
> 	} s;
> 	u_char  firmid[3];	/* Firmware ver. & rev. w/o last char */
> };

  Hmm, I'll see if I can build a kernel tonight that forces it on, and 
use sync whether the BT946C likes it or not.  The worst that could happen 
is badly managled filesystems.  There could be a problem with the ROM 
version that I have (or perhaps a new "feature").

Tom



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