Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 09:13:54 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: groudier@club-internet.fr (Gerard Roudier) Cc: cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NEWS: SYM53C1010 and Ultra3 support Message-ID: <199911260813.JAA49461@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.991126011128.1080A-100000@localhost> from Gerard Roudier at "Nov 26, 1999 1:22:44 am"
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As Gerard Roudier wrote ... > On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > Being curious I put the sym into -current on the Alpha box and got: > > > > EB64+ > > Alpha 21064A Evaluation Board 274 MHz, 274MHz > > [ ... ] > > > sym0: <810a> irq 7 at device 5.0 on pci0 > > sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-10, parity checking > > CACHE TEST FAILED: script execution failed. > > start=47c625c8, pc=47c625d4, end=47c625e8 > > sym0: CACHE INCORRECTLY CONFIGURED. > > SYM-0.9.0 was not checked for Alpha and in fact could only fail with > Alpha (The source said 'only i386 supported') :-) > SYM-0.10.0 should work on paper for Alpha but needed some trivial > changes in order to work for some Alpha. > SYM-0.11.0 should be ok for Alpha OK, what I have on the Alpha box is: PATCH-SYM-0.10.0-19991111 SYM-0.9.0-19991024.tar.gz PATCH-SYM-0.11.0-19991120 The markings of the motherboard's chip say: - NCR810 609-03911399 XP05901 9426N <- probably a datecode of 1994, week 2 The markings on the chip of the PCI expansion board say: - NCR810 609-0391635 9503N <- probably a datecode of 1995, week 3 So, is not an 810A but an 810-plain. At least, I assume the 810A is marked as such (?). > The sym driver performs MMIOs with a mb() after each access, as it seemed > to be the default for the ncr driver. In my opinion, using normal IOs > should be more safe for Alpha. If you still want to give the sym driver > (0.11.0) a try, you should uncomment the following define in sym_conf.h. > > /* > * Use Normal IO instead of MMIO. > */ > /* #define SYMCONF_IOMAPPED */ > > Gérard. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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