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Date:      Fri, 10 Jan 1997 14:52:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ncr probe FAILS on 2.2-BETA_A!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970110144304.1014G-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970110215725.se@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de>

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On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Stefan Esser wrote:

> > I'm attempting to install 2.2-BETA_A on a SiS Pentium 100 system, and the
> > ncr startup locks the system up just after 
> > 
> > ncr0 waiting for devices to settle
> > 
> > This machine works perfectly with 2.2-ALPHA.  I've booted -c and reduced
> > the devices to the bare necessities with no change.  
> 
> Hmm, the NCR driver changes between ALPHA and BETA are
> quite simple, and mostly stylistic ...
> 
> > ncr0 <ncr 53c815 scsi> rev 3 int a irq 11 on pci0:13
> > ncr0 waiting for scsi devices to settle          <-- 2.2-BETA stops here
> > (ncr0:3:0): "PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-4XCE 1.00" type 5 removable SCSI 2
> 
> > The SCSI devices to receive the bus reset, as the lights on the CDROMs
> > light up, but that's all.  The floppy drive light is stuck on and the
> > keyboard LEDs don't function when the lockup occurs.
> 
> I expect this to be a problem with your chip set ...
> 
> Perhaps you want to try booting with PCI options (write 
> buffers, PCI burst mode) disabled.

I can try that.  There is one thing I did change and that was I upgraded
the CPU from a 90 to a 133, but the motherboard only does 100MHz, so it's
running underclocked at the moment.  

I'll try fidding with the chipset options.

> 
> > There were no changes to the system configuration between shutting down
> > 2.2-ALPHA and booting the BETA floppy.
> > 
> > Sorry for taking so long to report this; today is the only time I've had
> > to try plugging in BETA.
> > 
> > Boot -v and other information available by request.
> 
> Please try the applied patch. If it doesn't work, then
> send boot -v messages. If you have access to the CVS
> tree, you may want to use the driver from 2.2-ALPHA. I 
> can send you a context diff, if you prefer that ...

Unfortunately, this is on the boot.flp and I'm not at all set up to
rebuild the system....:(

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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