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Subject: FreeBSD won't install/work with an Asus SC875 SCSI card
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>Number:         14492
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       FreeBSD won't install/work with an Asus SC875 SCSI card
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 24 00:30:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Mon Mar 12 19:51:44 PST 2001
>Last-Modified:  Mon Mar 12 19:51:52 PST 2001
>Originator:     Robert Fargher
>Release:        3.1 (with 3.3 install floppies)
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
I picked up a copy of the Walnut Creek "The Complete FreeBSD" book 
with version 3.1 CDs. I have two SCSI cards, both based upon 
NCR/Symbios chips.  
 
  ncr0 (Symbios 810 chip; the card is a Gigabyte GA-410) is no problem.  
But ncr1 is an Asus SC875 card, based upon the Symbios 875 chip.  When 
I try to install FreeBSD, the installer balks at this card, trying large 
numbers of hex numbers (addresses?) in pairs.  It takes a very long time
to exhaust the list (especially as each pair of hex numbers is tried 4
times), after which the installer gives up on this card.  Seeing as how
all my hard drives are on this card, I can't install FreeBSD.

 It was suggested (on the #FreeBSD Undernet IRC channel) that I try the 
latest (3.3) boot/install floppies.  This made no difference.

  This card is based upon a supported chip.  This card works fine in 
Linux, OS/2, BeOS (4.5.2, not in 4.5 though) and Win98.  But neither 
Solaris 7 nor FreeBSD.

  If it makes any difference, my system is an Asus P5A motherboard with 
an AMD K6-2 300 MHz CPU and 128 MB PC-100 RAM.
>How-To-Repeat:
Just try to install FreeBSD. 
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
To: fargher@aebc.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: i386/14492: FreeBSD won't install/work with an Asus SC875 SCSI card
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 10:03:13 -0500

 On Sun, Oct 24, 1999, fargher@aebc.com wrote:
 >   ncr0 (Symbios 810 chip; the card is a Gigabyte GA-410) is no problem.  
 > But ncr1 is an Asus SC875 card, based upon the Symbios 875 chip.  When 
 > I try to install FreeBSD, the installer balks at this card, trying large 
 > numbers of hex numbers (addresses?) in pairs.  It takes a very long time
 > to exhaust the list (especially as each pair of hex numbers is tried 4
 > times), after which the installer gives up on this card.  Seeing as how
 > all my hard drives are on this card, I can't install FreeBSD.
 
    I've installed FreeBSD 3.1 on this system with the following
 ncr controller:
 
 ncr0: <ncr 53c875j fast20 wide scsi> irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci0
 
    It is a Diamond FirePort 40.  Seems that the Asus card may not
 be completely compatible with the ncr driver.
 
 -- 
 |Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
 |Logic is neither an art or a science but a dodge.
 `-------------------------------------------------
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: nbm 
State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 5 16:06:38 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Could you try again with the improved support in 4.0 or 4.1? 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=14492 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: des 
State-Changed-When: Mon Mar 12 19:51:44 PST 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Feedback timeout. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=14492 
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