Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 09:22:26 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com> To: Brad Midgley <junkmail@pht.com> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>, Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.0.5-950622-SNAP on a big machine Message-ID: <199507291622.JAA01368@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Jul 95 10:01:38 MDT." <Pine.LNX.3.91.950729095306.12809A-100000@exodus.pht.com>
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> >> If the card worked fine with a previous release of FreeBSD let us assume >> for the time being we do not have a bt946 hardware problem and let us >> not touch that piece of hardware for fear of introducing an unknown into >> the equation. > >unfortunately, there is a new thing in the equation. The smc net card >wouldn't work, so I popped it out, put in a 3com, and now it works. The >system is running now so I don't dare to poke it. We've been running >about 24 hours with only one (intentional) reboot so it would see the high >32m (yay) > >> Check that you have the IRQ of the ed0 device assigned to the ISA bus >> in the PCI P-n-P configuration menu of the BIOS setup for you machine. > >yes, both the 3com and smc I had set to irq5, which is reserved for isa in >pnp. As long as the 3com code is pretty solid now, I'm happy to leave it. >I think it's time to just cross my fingers. > >some asides: > >we do have an a2940w, but the external connector on it isn't the standard >"mini-50" it looks more like a "mini-68". Do you know if I can just get >an adapter cable for my external (non-wide) chain? There are wide to narrow connectors availible, but you have to be carefull since the 2940W uses a screw on external connector. >do scsi devices on a second controller just show up as [r]sd7-[r]sd13?? >(ie, same major device number, just incrementing the minor number?) How >does the machine decide which controller is first? The devices in the scsi system can be dynamically allocated a unit number based on the order they are probed (not necessarily related to SCSI ID), or they can be "hardwired" to a specific unit number. Take a look at scsi.4 and the LINT kernel config file for details. > >where can I find documentation on /sbin/dset and the kernel -q option? Whoops. No man page. Ugen??? -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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