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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news3.digex.net!digex.net!not-for-mail From: dcmyers@access4.digex.net (David Myers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NCR810 SCSI help needed! Date: 7 Jan 1996 18:30:02 -0500 Organization: Express Access Online Communications USA: 800-969-9090 Lines: 65 Message-ID: <4cpl1q$5am@access4.digex.net> References: <4cnmn0$dk8@access4.digex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: access4.digex.net In article <4cnmn0$dk8@access4.digex.net>, David Myers <dcmyers@access4.digex.net> wrote: > > > > >I have no idea what to do next. Do any of you? My only goal is to get >FreeBSD running; I couldn't care less about this MS-DOS nonsense, and would >happily skip DOS-level formatting if it can somehow be avoided. Thanks in >advance. > >-David. Just to follow up my own article...I found another PC and used the makeflp.bat to create a boot floppy, to see if FreeBSD's drivers could make sense of the card where DOS' couldn't. Here's a transcript (and note that my 1 gig disk is SCSI 0; my CDROM is SCSI 4): ncr0 <ncr53c810 scsi> rev 1 int a irq ?? on pci0:6 int line register not set by BIOS ncr0 waiting for device to settle (ncr0:0:0): "QUANTUM FIREBALL1080S 1Q09" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0 (ncr0:0:0): Direct-Access sd0 (ncr0:0:0) Fast SCSI 2 100ns (10Mb/sec) offset 8 1042 MB (2134305 512-byte sectors) ncr0:4 Error (80:41) (4f-6f-0) (0/13)@(6c4:0f000000) script cmd = 6a3400000 reg: da 10 80 13 47 00 04 1f 00 0b 0f ae 80 00 06 00 So something about my CDROM at address 4 is causing problems. Right now, it's in an external case with an active terminator . That "irq ??" thing bothers me as well, but there's no apparent way to set the IRQ on the SCSI controller. There's an unidentified jumper 6 on the SCSI card, but no other user-settable jumpers. There are a bunch of additional error messages that follow this, each one relating to an apparent failure of device 4. So, I decided to try booting from the floppy with the CD powered down. When I do that, the boot continues with the following messages: vga0 rev 0 int a irq 12 on pci0:19 rootfs is 1000Kbyte compiled in MFS ...and then it freezes completely. So the good news is that the card is recognized, the bad news is that I can't install until the CD-ROM comes on-line. Can anyone make sense of these symptoms? Feel like I'm getting close... Many thanks. -David. -- ________________________________________ David C. Myers dcmyers@access.digex.net