From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Jan 20 15:38:50 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA03661 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:38:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA03656 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:38:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-238.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.238]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA06564 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:38:41 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA02631 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:38:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199901202338.RAA02631@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Symbios 875 activity LED? In-reply-to: Message from Stephen McKay of "Wed, 20 Jan 1999 23:56:21 +1000." <199901201356.XAA14352@nymph.dtir.qld.gov.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:38:28 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message