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Date:      Tue, 15 Aug 2000 22:26:26 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@icomtek.co.za>
To:        groudier@club-internet.fr ([G_rard Roudier])
Cc:        cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/scripts dokern.sh
Message-ID:  <200008152026.e7FKQQB82523@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008122252150.18682-100000@linux.local> from "[G_rard Roudier]" at "Aug 13, 2000 07:45:30 pm"

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Your patch made it work! :-) I have attached pieces of dmesg at the end
if you would like to see what it looks like now. I haven't done much
testing yet. Just boot and login.

Thanks.

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za

> 
> The patch below tries to early detect a possible hardware problem that
> triggers MASTER DATA PARITY ERROR conditions and decides to work around 
> such a problem by disabling the corresponding chip feature.
> 
> You may try the patch on your system and let me know.
> 
> --- sym_hipd.c.0813	Sun Aug 13 13:46:04 2000
> +++ sym_hipd.c	Sun Aug 13 17:59:55 2000
> @@ -6914,12 +6914,18 @@
>  
...
> If this patch detects the problem, but the machine is unstable despite the
> disabling of MPEE, then, we should probably also clear bit 6 of the PCI
> COMMAND register.
> 
> If the patch does not detect the problem, then I will have to find
> something better. :(
> (May-be the sym driver should disable PCI parity error signaling for old
> NCR devices in order to be compatible with other drivers ?????).
> 



pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
...
found->	vendor=0x1000, dev=0x0001, revid=0x01
	class=00-00-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=0
	subordinatebus=0 	secondarybus=0
	intpin=a, irq=12
	map[10]: type 4, range 32, base 00006000, size  8, enabled
	map[14]: type 1, range 32, base f2000000, size  8, enabled
...
sym0: <810> port 0x6000-0x60ff mem 0xf2000000-0xf20000ff irq 12 at device 4.0 on pci0
sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-10, SE, parity checking
sym0: open drain IRQ line driver
sym0: using NCR-generic firmware.
CACHE TEST FAILED: PCI PARITY ERROR DETECTED, TRYING AGAIN WITH PCI PARITY CHECKING DISABLED.
...
Waiting 2 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
(noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1): SCSI BUS reset delivered.
Creating DISK da0
pass0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
pass0: <SEAGATE ST51080N 0913> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
pass0: Serial Number EB949656
pass0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <SEAGATE ST51080N 0913> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
da0: Serial Number EB949656
da0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da0: 1030MB (2109840 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 131C)
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
da0s1: type 0xa5, start 63, end = 2104514, size 2104452 : OK
start_init: trying /sbin/init


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