Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 01:33:22 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Kent Palmkvist <kentp@isy.liu.se> Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sea driver - anyone porting from 2.2.8 to 3.?/current ? Message-ID: <19990616013322.04252@hydrogen.fircrest.net> In-Reply-To: <l03130300b38bbd098f44@[130.236.53.104]>; from Kent Palmkvist on Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 01:11:05PM %2B0200 References: <l03130300b38a699f4971@[130.236.53.104]>; <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906092135490.19997-100000@misery.sdf.com> <l03130300b38a699f4971@[130.236.53.104]> <l03130300b38bbd098f44@[130.236.53.104]>
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Kent Palmkvist scribbled this message on Jun 15: > : > >> a card. If there is any interrest and any available card/testers, I am > >> willing to put some work into getting a working driver. No guarantees of > >> any type is given of course... > > > >I have an ST-02 card, but I was never able to get it to work... I'm not > >sure if the card just doesn't work, but depending on shipping, I'd be > >willing to send it to someone... > > > >when I tried to boot it with the bios, it would pause at probing devices > >and not go any farther, and then when I took the bios off, the machine > >would probe, but the kernel wouldn't see it... :( > > What version of FreeBSD was that? The kernel in 2.0.x (don't remember how > long this behaviour was included, or if it changed) detected the card type > using a signature in the BIOS. Does the card work in DOS? What version of > the BIOS is on the card? What type of devices was connected to the SCSI bus? I'm not sure what version, it was something in the 2.2.x range though.. and I'm not sure if it does, I just popped it in a machine to use with a single 200meg disk from a ps/2, and when it didn't work to much, I gave up... the disk (and cables) work fine with an ahc2842... and the disk was the only thing connected... > I think you could get the hanging at probe time by either having poor > termination of the SCSI bus, or that the interrupts was set wrong (default > setting of the card is to disable interrupts, but they are needed I think). > It has however been a while since I had a look at the code. hmmm... pretty sure I had it set up properly... > I want you to know that if you send me your card, it will not be returned > for at least 6 months. So you would better be prepared to be without the > ST02 for that period of time. Shipping to Sweden is also a bit expensive > and slow (my FreeBSD subscription CDs cost approx $10 for shipping with > surface mail). I guess its best to wait and see if anyone else living a bit > closer has a card they can spare. oh, that shouldn't be to bad... and I haven't ever used it... I picked it up from a swap meet once, so, you could even keep it if you wanted to... :) it'd probably be cheaper for me to find another one locally than to have you ship it back... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 541 684 8449 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 "The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it. The event is only the actualizing of its thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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