Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 19:33:44 +0100 From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NCR810/Barracuda Question Message-ID: <199510231833.AA12365@Sysiphos> In-Reply-To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> "Re: NCR810/Barracuda Question" (Oct 23, 13:02)
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On Oct 23, 13:02, Joe Greco wrote: } Subject: Re: NCR810/Barracuda Question } > > } ncr1: targ 2? ERROR(80:100) (e-ab-2) (8/13)@(10d4:e000000) } > > ^^^ } > > handshake timeout } > > } > > } reg: da 10 0 13 47 8 2 1f 0 e 82 ab 80 0 3 0 } > > } > > Are you sure that there are excactly two terminators (i.e. is there } > > possibly one on the Barracuda) ? } > } > I've seen similar problems if the terminiation power is coming from the } > drive and is also coming from the card. I always set it up so the drive } > gets term power from the bus, and have never had a problem. } } Nope, that's not it. The termination is religious, except that it's not a } slick terminator. } } It works fine under DOS. It also works under the 102095 SNAP floppy (or at } least it was able to newfs filesystems and the like). } } I would very much like to be able to install a new set of drivers without } upgrading the OS. The machine in question is a production news server and } taking it down is bad enough... doing an upgrade at the same time would be } rather painful. Is there any way I could just upgrade the driver? (which } files do I need?) The driver is completely cointained in "/sys/pci/ncr.c". (There is a "ncrreg.h" file in the same directory, but that has not changed since March '95 ...) Just get a new "ncr.c" and rebuild your kernel. Let me know, if you encounter any problems. Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/staff/esser/esser.html <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>
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