Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 23:23:34 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: Alec Wolman <wolman@cs.washington.edu>, groudier@club-internet.fr, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: does the sym driver work with the xp1000 pci scsi controller? Message-ID: <20000616232334.C13470@freebie.wbnet> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006161413560.2928-100000@semuta.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 02:16:12PM -0700 References: <200006162113.OAA45907@miles.cs.washington.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006161413560.2928-100000@semuta.feral.com>
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On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 02:16:12PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Perhaps this will make my question clearer. The following notes are > > from HARDWARE.TXT, in the section talking about the XP1000: > > > > " Expansion: > > Don't try to use NCR/Symbios-chip based SCSI adapters in the PCI slots > > connected to hose 1. There is a not-yet-found FreeBSD bug that prevents > > this from working correctly. " > > > > So my questions is, do any of the recent changes to the sym driver fix > > this problem. Or, is the problem with some other component of the OS? > > Yes- this is related to the Xp1000 port, not the Sym driver. And, no, I don't > know whether it's been fixed. Neither do I. The text for XP1000 in -current is still the same. Drew?? > It doesn't really matter, though, because insofar as I know, the XP1000 > doesn't have an onboard SYM- it has a Qlogic ISP chip. But you don't have to Yep, a Qlogic 1040 > attach to that (which does, btw, have problems in FreeBSD 4.0 that are still > not quite resolved). You can use the onboard IDE connections or blow one of > your PCI slots for either a Sym or another Qlogic card. Right.. -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org "Do, or do not. There is no try" wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl - Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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