Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 00:37:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Eric Floerchinger <eric_floerchinger@albertsons.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Its about that time of year again. (FreeBSD & MCA) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908310033370.1358-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <9906635943DDD211A0250008C7911999043423@nts1bpb.albertsons.com>
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On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Eric Floerchinger wrote: > I have two NCR system 3430's (P-66 MCA) and two NCR system 3432's > (486/66 MCA) with NCR SCSI cards (can't remember the chipset offhand). > I'll try out this kernel as soon as I get some time... I want to find > some sort of free UNIX that'll work on these beasts, the only thing I > can find is SCO. I've got boot disk images up now. I think the 1.2M image may default to serial console as its the image I burned for my model 77 boot disk. Make sure that you capture a complete verbose boot as that will have all the POS register dumps etc. Its also possible that the NCR machines won't return what I'm expecting from Int 0x15 func 0xc0 and if so the verbose boot messages will contain relevent debuging information. I've a pretty good idea that I've seen an NCR MCA box before and am kicking myself for letting it escape me. I'll check with the dealer and see if he still has it in the storeroom. > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Matthew N. Dodd [mailto:winter@jurai.net] > > Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 6:19 PM > > To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Its about that time of year again. (FreeBSD & MCA) > > > > > > But instead of lamely asking "Does FreeBSD support MCA?" or "When will > > someone finish MCA support?" (which I suppose is still a > > valid question.) > > I will ask another question; "Anyone want to see what I've > > got so far?" > > > > http://www.jurai.net/~winter/mca/ > > > > README.mca > > mca.diff > > mca.tar.gz > > > > MicroChannel Architecture System detected. > > ... > > mca0: <MCA bus> on motherboard > > mca0: unknown card (id 0x8fda, enabled) at slot 1 > > ed0: <WD EtherCard PLUS 10T/A (WD8003W/A)> io 0x280-0x29f mem > > 0xd0000-0xd3fff > > ed0: irq 10 on mca0 id 6fc2 slot 2 > > ed0: address 00:00:c0:31:94:30, type WD8003W/A (16 bit) > > ie0: <3Com EtherLink/MC Ethernet Adapter> io 0x300-0x307 mem > > 0xc0000-0xc5fff > > ie0: irq 9 on mca0 id 6042 slot 3 > > ie0: <3C523 R14> address 02:60:8c:da:15:ac > > mca0: unknown card (id 0xeeff, enabled) at slot 4 > > mca0: unknown card (id 0x8efe, enabled) at slot 5 > > ... > > > > Granted, I'm still having problems getting the (until now ISA only) > > drivers working with these cards but if_ed_mca is able to > > send packets and > > complain about device timeouts and the if_ie_mca driver does manage to > > blow up somewhere inside of ieinit(). :) > > > > Basically, I believe that I've got all the pieces needed for > > FreeBSD to > > support MCA devices, should any device drivers actually be > > written. I've > > got a pile of stuff I'm trying to work through here so > > drivers should show > > up at some point (I think the 'aha' driver for the aha1640 > > will work out > > of the box but I don't have one to test that theory on. Yet.) > > > > I'm planning on committing this stuff to -CURRENT in a week or two, or > > when I actually manage to get a driver working, whichever comes first. > > > > I'd really like a few other people to try booting a kernel > > with this code > > on any of the MCA systems they happen to have laying around > > just to make > > sure that my changes do indeed work on other hardware than my > > Model 77. > > > > If someone has a ABIOS block device driver code hiding on > > their hard disk > > I'd really like to look at it (I already know about the Mach3 stuff). > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | > > FreeBSD/NetBSD | > > | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | > > ix86,sparc,pmax | > > | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | > > ISO8802.5 4ever | > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > > > -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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