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From: rtannert@cs.uct.ac.za (R Tanner-Tremaine)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: PCI SCSI problems.. pls help!
Date: 25 Feb 1995 13:25:52 GMT
Organization: University of Cape Town
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Hello

I've been trying to install FreeBSD release 2.0 for the past couple of days.
I can get it working alright on my IDE boot drive, but cannot get it to
recognise my SCSI hard drive. I think it has to do with the PCI setup or
something along those lines.

When the device detection takes place, I get the following errors regarding
my PCI bus:

[...]
pci0: scanning device 0..31, mechanism=1.
pci0:0: vendor=0x1080, device=0x600, class=bridge [not supported]
graphics0 <display device> int a (config) not bound on pci0:1
ncr0 <ncr 53c810 scsi> int a (config) not bound on pci0:2
        reg20: virtual=0xf2afe000 physical=0xc0000000
CACHE TEST FAILED: host wrote 1, ncr read -1.
CACHE TEST FAILED: ncr wrote 2, host read 1.
CACHE TEST FAILED: ncr wrote 2, read back -1.
CACHE INCORRECTLY CONFIGURED.
pci uses physical addresses from 0xc0000000 to 0xc0001000
[...]

What exactly is going on here? Is FreeBSD refusing to recognise my PCI setup
as a whole, or just the SCSI controller? What does it mean by "class=bridge
[not supported]" ? And what does the "not bound on pci0:#" mean? If you have
any ideas on how I can remedy this situation, I'd really appreciate it.

Thank you for you consideration.

Richard Tanner-Tremaine.
(email responses preferred: rtannert@cs.uct.ac.za)