From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 17 23: 1:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1842D10FCE for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 23:01:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id XAA13644; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 23:06:38 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990217225925.0401f9d0@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 23:06:37 -0700 To: Mike Smith From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Walnut Creek, Where Are You? Cc: chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199902172324.PAA01535@dingo.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 03:24 PM 2/17/99 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >> Could this be due to probing, I wonder? IBM machines tend to have >> weird hardware that responds badly to probes. It could be that >> other drivers (which could be deactivated) are mucking up the >> hardware. This used to happen with OS/2. > >No. You wire the pins from the 82558 to the PCI bus, and that's it. It's true that with most highly-integrated peripheral controllers (including the 82558), it's hard to deviate much from the reference design. But what else is at the port addresses scanned by the various drivers (not just the fxp driver, but others)? It's possible that some arcane bit of motherboard hardware is being messed up -- perhaps by a driver that isn't even finding the peripheral it's looking for. IBM machines are like that. >> Heck, if they sent me a machine to play with, I'd do that just for >> fun. > >Would you commit to producing results? They offer pretty good leasing >deals, and if you were willing to commit to something, we might be able >to fund the lease. The other issue is the IBM ServeRAID controller, >again for which there is a Linux driver but no FreeBSD driver; this >would need to be written from scratch. I'd need to learn what was involved in writing a RAID driver, but if there's existing code that shows how RAID has been mapped into the SCSI subsystem I can certainly adapt it. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message