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Date:      Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:56:29 +0100
From:      "SD" <s.d@subdimension.com>
To:        "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Cant get Adaptec 1520 SCSI (ISA Bus) to work in 4.3
Message-ID:  <001b01c0fe60$f2dd5180$f38a69d5@zen>
References:  <000a01c0fdb4$3825b5f0$2506ff3e@zen> <01062520091901.00512@mark9.vladsempire.net>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
To: "SD" <s.d@subdimension.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: Cant get Adaptec 1520 SCSI (ISA Bus) to work in 4.3


> On Monday 25 June 2001 15:20, SD wrote:
> > I bought an Adaptec ISA 1520 SCSI controller ('new' - box unopened) -
> >
> > mainly as I believed that it was pretty much 'Industry Standard' and
> >
> > would thus work well with all my OS's... ;-)
> >
> > BSD 4.3 Release isnt happy ..
> >
> > I have recompiled with 'aic' present in the kernel and after RTFM made
> >
> > sure that all that else that *seemed* to be required was also enabled.
> >
> > On reboot dmesg reports:
> >
> > isa0 - too many dependant configs (8)
> >
> > at the point of probing the controller.
> >
> > Has anyone got one of these to work with 4.3?
> >
> > Surely it must be one of the most ordinary / poular ISA SCSI cards ever
> >
> > - so it cant be too much of a prob? ;-)
>
> Have you made sure that the jumpers are set to the resources that the
driver
> is expecting the card to use?   The driver really seems to want the card
to
> be on irq 11 and I/O address 0x0140.  Most likely you are having some sort
of
> conflict in your system with irq 11.
>
> I dug one of those up from the back room and checked it out on a
4.3-STABLE
> machine from last weekend.  It seemed to work just fine.
>
> Josh
>

Thanks Josh,

Yep its on IRQ11 alright  - and no conflicts.
Its a dual boot machine and Win2k is having no probs at all .. for what
thats worth ;-)

I guess that I am going to set the card up in non P&P - fully manual mode
and see what happens

Cheers
S


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