Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:57:35 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Symbios 875 activity LED? Message-ID: <199901202357.PAA04268@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:38:28 CST." <199901202338.RAA02631@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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> Stephen McKay writes: > > On Tuesday, 19th January 1999, Stefan Esser wrote: > > >Yes. I understand that you had wanted to find some hint at the option, > > >but in fact, I do not want to take the chance, that there is a card > > >from some vendor I never heard of, that does some very nasty things if > > >GPIO<0> is toggled ... > > > > Ok, so let's start a list of cards that definitely get a working LED from > > SCSI_NCR_SYMBIOS_COMPAT. I have a Diamond FirePort 40. I turned that > > option on months ago. My LED works. My SCSI card didn't blow up. :-) > > Makes the LED work on Asus SC875. > > The next question is, "How does one dectect and differentiate an Asus > SC875 from other Symbios based cards?" Possibly a BIOS checksum? Think > the Asus uses straight Symbios BIOS. The "correct" way to do it is to use the subvendor ID. As Stefan noted, however, it seems that many manufacturers don't fill this in. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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