Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 23:49:16 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl> To: Alec Wolman <wolman@cs.washington.edu> Cc: wc.bulte@chello.nl, =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= <groudier@club-internet.fr>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: does the sym driver work with the xp1000 pci scsi controller? Message-ID: <20000616234916.A13766@freebie.wbnet> In-Reply-To: <200006162131.OAA45980@miles.cs.washington.edu>; from wolman@cs.washington.edu on Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 02:31:37PM -0700 References: <wkb@chello.nl> <200006162131.OAA45980@miles.cs.washington.edu>
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On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 02:31:37PM -0700, Alec Wolman wrote: > > > 4.0R HARDWARE.TXT? The only thing that I wrote in there that faintly appears > > relevant is: > > > > "Expansion: > > Don't try to use NCR/Symbios-chip based SCSI adapters in the PCI slots > > connected to hose 1. There is a not-yet-found FreeBSD bug that prevents this > > from working correctly. Not all VGA cards will work behind the PCI-PCI > > bridge (so in slots 4 & 5). Only cards that implement VGA-legacy adressing > > correctly will work. Workaround is to put the VGA card 'before' the bridge." > > > > Where does it say the 83C895 does not work? It says that there are problems > > with NCR/Symbios based cards *ON HOSE 1*. Not that they don't work at all. > > My XP1000 came with all its disks attached to the Symbios PCI card, not > the Qlogic motherboard controller. I'm sorry, but it was the "connected > to hose 1" phrase that I mis-interpreted. I have no idea what a hose is, > so I figured that must be the PCI slot it comes in. OK, I understand that. A hose != PCI slot. A hose is DEC/CPQ speak for an high speed I/O channel to (e.g) a PCI bus controller. The PCI bus controller drives a number of PCI slots. I will write a clarification around this in HARDWARE.TXT cheers, -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org "Do, or do not. There is no try" wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl - Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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