From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Jan 21 17:06:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29598 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:06:20 -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 RAA29591 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:06:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt3-17.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.17]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA24628 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 19:05:56 -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 TAA06082 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 19:05:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199901220105.TAA06082@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 Mike Smith of "Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:57:35 PST." <199901202357.PAA04268@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 19:05:54 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith writes: > > 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. > > The "correct" way to do it is to use the subvendor ID. As Stefan > noted, however, it seems that many manufacturers don't fill this in. That's what I was thinking and trying to say last night but apparently was too tired to realize that's not quite what I said. Think that is also the message Stefan Esser has been repeating. BIOS checksums would probably be the only reliable way to tell but for such a small benefit such as "make the LED" work its not worth the hassle or bloat to build such a database into the kernel. Now my LED is working, could somebody put a software timer on it to latch it on longer? Maybe a symbiosd, or ledd? It flashes so fast I can't see it unless I have a couple of "cvs updates" running. -- 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