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Date:      Mon, 22 May 1995 12:14:08 -0700
From:      Eric.Vanbezooijen@Eng.Sun.COM (Eric van Bezooijen)
To:        Eric.Vanbezooijen@Eng.Sun.COM, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD install failure on ASUS/NCR PCI system
Message-ID:  <9505221914.AA02946@logrus.Eng.Sun.COM>

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> From rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Mon May 22 12:06 PDT 1995
> From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD install failure on ASUS/NCR PCI system
> To: Eric.Vanbezooijen@Eng (Eric van Bezooijen)
> Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 12:05:57 -0700 (PDT)
> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
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> > 
> > 
> > I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a ASUS 90 Mhz Pentium system (16 Mb RAM,
> > 512 Kb cache), with a NCR PCI scsi card (53c810 based).
> > 
> > I have two drives, a Quantum 1.0 Gb and a Quantum 4.3 Gb drive.  My 1.0
> > Gb drive has 1 DOS partition (the whole drive).  I wanted to set up a small
> > (128 Mb) partition on the 4.3 Gb drive for DOS, and install FreeBSD on
> > the rest of the 4.3 Gb drive.
> 
> We know that we are having problems with the Quantum Grand Prix 4.3G drive,
> does this drive work fine under DOS/Windows??  (I have not been able
> to test it here since I don't have one, the failure reports I have from
> Jordan are for FreeBSD only.  If infact the drive works fine under
> DOS/Windows on the ncr controller I will see what I can do about makeing
> it work under FreeBSD, if the drive has problems under DOS/Windows I can't
> do much about it :-(.

It is in fact a Quantum Grand Prix drive.  Model XP32151

DOS seems to install on it just fine.  I haven't tried Wind0ze yet.
 
> I have some strong suspecions about the ncr scsi sequencer code we are
> using since I have at least one devices that works fine with DOS but
> fails to work with FreeBSD on the exact same controller/mb setup.
> 
> There have been some resently submitted patches, but they simply defeat
> sync negotation and such, and this device I am having problems with
> should do sync (seem to recall it doing sync on my bt445).
> 
> > However, I cannot get FreeBSD to boot up and recognize my SCSI disks.  When
> > the boot sequence is setting up devices, I get the following error:
> > 
> > Changing root device to fd0c
> > sd0(ncr0:0:0); assertion "cp == np->header.cp" failed: 
> > file "../../i386/pci/ncr.c", line 5172
> > ncr0 targ 0?: ERROR (80:100:29) (8/13)@ 360cc:e000000).
> > ncr0: restart (fatal error)
> > ncr0: aborting job...
> > 
> > After a while I get:
> > DOS partition I/O error
> 
> Yep, basically the same thing every one with a Quantum Grand Prix and
> a NCR 810 controller is reporting....
> 
> ...
> > Any clues ? I really want to make FreeBSD work! Is my hard drive too large
> > (4.3 Gb) ? 
> 
> It is not the size of the drive, it is that particular model we are
> having problem with (note, the Grand Prix is a SCSI-III device, I
> run Atlas drives here which are SCSI-II without these problems).

Would a call to Quantum be in order here ?  Is there an e-mail address for
Quantum ? Although, if this is such a new problem, they might not even
know yet...  

-Eric

> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
> Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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