Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 15:07:59 +0100 From: se@freebsd.org (Stefan Esser) To: marcs@znep.com (Marc Slemko) Cc: scsi@freebsd.org, skafte@worldgate.com (Greg Skafte) Subject: Re: Tekram 390U and Seagate hawk ST32151N Message-ID: <Mutt.19961201150759.se@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961130192354.602I-100000@alive.ampr.ab.ca>; from Marc Slemko on Nov 30, 1996 19:32:28 -0700 References: <57pc97$hcm@news.itfs.nsk.su> <Pine.BSF.3.95.961130192354.602I-100000@alive.ampr.ab.ca>
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On Nov 30, marcs@znep.com (Marc Slemko) wrote: > [Sent to hardware and scsi; unless you have a reason, please followup to > only one list. scsi is probably better, since it is dealing with freebsd > drivers now.] > > Nickolay's suggestion worked, so now we can get past the BIOS probing > stage. However, FreeBSD still won't boot. <sigh> I am using -stable with > the NCR driver (ncr.c and ncrregs.h) from -current dropped in. A 300 meg > drive will work fine, but when it tries to probe the 2 gig hawk we get > something like: > > sd0(ncr0:4:0): COMMAND failed (9 ff) @[address] > sd0 could not get size error ncr0: aborting job > ERROR (90:0) (0-21-15) (0/13) @ (418:43000060) > script cmd = 878b0000 > reg : [deleted] > ncr0: restart failed Please do not use the driver from -current under -stable ! There have been quite some changes, and I'm surprised you got that far ... (552 lines of diffs in ncr.c alone ...) > Booting with a 2.2-ALPHA disk works fine, so either I missed something > from the NCR stuff between stable and current or there was another change > that fixed this. Anyone have any ideas about what it could be? Nothing > stood out in the CVS logs as being obvious. > > If all else fails, we just have to move to 2.2 which won't kill us, but we > would prefer not to for this machine. Please allow a few days to send you patches that add all -current driver features to the NCR driver in -stable. It is too late to integrate them into 2.1.6.1 (AFAIK), but I'll support 2.1.x as long as there is interest by users. Regards, STefan
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