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Date:      Fri, 25 Sep 1998 20:10:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Howard Lew <digital@www2.shoppersnet.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   NCR 53c875 SCSI Problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980925195631.11310A-100000@www2.shoppersnet.com>

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Hi everyone,

A few days ago I decided to swap out my Symbios (NCR) 53c810 PCI SCSI card
for a faster Symbios (NCR) chipset one.

As a result, I decided to go for the Diamond Fireport 40 which uses the
NCR 53c875 chipset.  From the docs, I thought the 875 was supported... 
The problem is that the FreeBSD driver does not seem to work on this card
and chokes with a command failed error.  I'm using a Seagate Hawk 4GB
SCSI-2 Hard Drive with FreeBSD 2.2.6. 

So I decided to try out the new 3.0 beta (boot.flp) and it also chokes on
the ncr boot probe for the hard drive. 

Here are the relevant lines:

on FreeBSD 2.2.6...

ncr0 <ncr 53c875j fast 20 wide scsi> rev 4 int a irq 12 on pci0:11
sd0(ncr0:2:0):COMMAND FAILED (9 ff) @ f0692c00
ncr0: aborting job...
ncr0:0: ERROR (90:0) (8-a6-0) (0/5) @ (script a0:43000060).
ncr0: script cmd=878b0000
ncr0: regdump:da 00 00 05 47 00 02 0f 71 08 00 a6 80 00 00 02.
ncr0: restart (fatal error).

<this keeps repeating...>



On FreeBSD 3.0 beta (booting from the boot disk)

ncr0: restart (scsi reset)
(probe 4: ncr0:0:4:0):.CDB: 12 1 80 0 ff 0
(probe 4: ncr0:0:4:0):ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24.0
(probe 4: ncr0:0:4:0):

ncr0:2:ERROR (0:11) (9-ae-0) (f/3d) @ (script 6cc:19000000)
ncr0: script cmd=89030000
ncr0: regdump:da 10 80 3d 47 0f 04 0f 03 09 82 ae 80 00 0e 00
ncr0: have to clear fifos.
ncr0: restart (fatal error).
(probe0:ncr0:0:4:6):COMMAND FAILED (9 ff) @ 0xf073c200.
(probe1:ncr0:0:2:1):COMMAND FAILED (9 ff) @ 0xf073f600.
ncr0: timeout nccb=0xf073c200 (skip)
ncr0: timeout nccb=0xf073f600 (skip)
ncr0: timeout nccb=0xf073c200 (skip)
<these timeout lines repeat and after a while have different nccb values).

Anyone have any ideas?  



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