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Date:      Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:38:28 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Symbios 875 activity LED? 
Message-ID:  <199901202338.RAA02631@nospam.hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au>  of "Wed, 20 Jan 1999 23:56:21 %2B1000." <199901201356.XAA14352@nymph.dtir.qld.gov.au> 

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Stephen McKay writes:
> On Tuesday, 19th January 1999, Stefan Esser wrote:
> >Yes. I understand that you had wanted to find some hint at the option,
> >but in fact, I do not want to take the chance, that there is a card 
> >from some vendor I never heard of, that does some very nasty things if
> >GPIO<0> is toggled ...
> 
> Ok, so let's start a list of cards that definitely get a working LED from
> SCSI_NCR_SYMBIOS_COMPAT.  I have a Diamond FirePort 40.  I turned that
> option on months ago.  My LED works.  My SCSI card didn't blow up. :-)

Makes the LED work on Asus SC875.

The next question is, "How does one dectect and differentiate an Asus 
SC875 from other Symbios based cards?" Possibly a BIOS checksum? Think 
the Asus uses straight Symbios BIOS.

--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
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