Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:28:58 +1000 (EST) From: Tony Alexander Frank <s9507886@cse.rmit.edu.au> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SC200 (53c810) probe fails to see attached HD Message-ID: <199806040228.MAA08032@dunnart.cse.rmit.EDU.AU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980603130943.24361R-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> (message from Doug White on Wed, 3 Jun 1998 13:14:57 -0700 (PDT))
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Hi, > > CACHE TEST FAILED: reg dstat-sstat2 readback ffffffff. CACHE > > INCORRECTLY CONFIGURED. > > The note in /sys/pci/ncr.c points this towards a PCI bus problem. > The first line comes from a caching test that verifies that the > NCR's regisers are not being cached by writing 0xffffffff to a > read-only register. If it reads back 0xffffffff then your PCI > chipset is caching the result and not actually writing it to the > chip. > > Check your BIOS settings and see if you can disable PCI write > caching. Hmm, I didn't think to check the source code. :-( Maybe next time. The bios doesn't give me much room to move - no "PCI write caching" option as such, however there are a few others PCI related options which I will experiment with later. Thanks for the help! -- | Tony Frank | Mobile: +61-412-481-029 | | 4th Year Computer Systems Engineering | Fax: +61-3-9720-4672 | | RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Email: s9507886@cse.rmit.edu.au | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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