Bug 14492

Summary: FreeBSD won't install/work with an Asus SC875 SCSI card
Product: Base System Reporter: fargher <fargher>
Component: i386Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description fargher 1999-10-24 08:30:01 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 chris 1999-10-24 16:03:13 UTC 
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.
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Comment 2 nbm freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-08-06 00:06:38 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Could you try again with the improved support in 4.0 or 4.1?
Comment 3 Dag-Erling Smørgrav freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-03-13 03:51:44 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Feedback timeout.