From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Oct 24 9: 2:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from www.matti.ee (solaris.matti.ee [194.126.98.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2309314C9C for ; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 09:02:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vallo@matti.ee) Received: from myhakas.matti.ee (myhakas.matti.ee [194.126.114.87]) by www.matti.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA21065; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 19:01:48 +0300 (EET DST) Received: by myhakas.matti.ee (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7D1B5100; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 19:01:52 +0300 (EEST) Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 19:01:52 +0300 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Chris Costello Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386/14492: FreeBSD won't install/work with an Asus SC875 SCSI card Message-ID: <19991024190152.A6973@myhakas.matti.ee> Reply-To: vallo@matti.ee References: <199910241510.IAA99627@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <199910241510.IAA99627@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Chris Costello on Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 08:10:01AM -0700 Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?AS_Matti_B=FCrootehnika?= Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 08:10:01AM -0700, Chris Costello wrote: > The following reply was made to PR i386/14492; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Chris Costello > To: fargher@aebc.com > Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: i386/14492: FreeBSD won't install/work with an Asus SC875 SCSI card > Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 10:03:13 -0500 > > On Sun, Oct 24, 1999, fargher@aebc.com wrote: > > ncr0 (Symbios 810 chip; the card is a Gigabyte GA-410) is no problem. > > But ncr1 is an Asus SC875 card, based upon the Symbios 875 chip. When > > I try to install FreeBSD, the installer balks at this card, trying large > > numbers of hex numbers (addresses?) in pairs. It takes a very long time > > to exhaust the list (especially as each pair of hex numbers is tried 4 > > times), after which the installer gives up on this card. Seeing as how > > all my hard drives are on this card, I can't install FreeBSD. > > I've installed FreeBSD 3.1 on this system with the following > ncr controller: > > ncr0: irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci0 > > It is a Diamond FirePort 40. Seems that the Asus card may not > be completely compatible with the ncr driver. We had our 2.2.7-RELEASE box running using this particular ASUS card, then upgraded to 3.2 and 3.3-STABLE. The card ended up in my own machine which runs -current. We had some minor problems, but nothing which can't be caused by bad cable or somesuch. -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message