Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 22:23:00 +0100 From: Stefan Esser <se@mi.uni-koeln.de> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Tom Torrance at home <tom@tomqnx.com>, scsi@freebsd.org, Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ncr timeout w/ RELENG_3 Message-ID: <19990306222300.B386@dialup124.mi.uni-koeln.de> In-Reply-To: <199903020239.UAA01989@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 08:39:55PM -0600 References: <m10Hat6-000I1kC@TomQNX.tomqnx.com> <199903020239.UAA01989@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On 1999-03-01 20:39 -0600, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> wrote: > I wonder how much affect the NCR BIOS has on a running FreeBSD system? > Could it initialize something funny? Or load misbehaving code in the > SCSI chip? Am thinking if there is a BIOS upgrade for your board then > this might be the time to give it a try. The driver used to initialize just about any NCR register (killing any effect the BIOS might have had ;-) but does now preserve some of the settings. But there really should not be much of a difference, whether you boot from one version of SDMS or another. > My Asus SC875 has Symbios's 4.0.11 BIOS, but there is a 4.3 (?) > available for the download. *Had* to apply that upgrade to cards at work > to get them to work in another Asus motherboard. I understand that to mean that the BIOS update was required to make the system recognize the SCSI chip and load even the primary boot block ? If there is any system where the SCSI BIOS version makes a difference to the running kernel, please let me know! Regards, STefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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