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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!nntp.inet.fi!news.funet.fi!nntp.hut.fi!not-for-mail From: kja2@cc.hut.fi (Kari T Jokiranta) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problem with NCR 53c810 PCI SCSI Date: 21 Oct 1996 15:22:40 GMT Organization: Helsinki University of Technology Lines: 39 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <54g4g0$t45@nntp.hut.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lk-hp-27.hut.fi X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Hi, I have home an Asus 486 board with an NCR PCI SCSI-controller installed. The controller works fine when I get the machine to boot with it... Nine times of ten I get tons of error messages about not getting the size of disks, (ncr0: 2: 0) command failed etc. (I'm writing this at school, so I don't have the exact messages handy.) It usually stops somewhere near (nrc0: 5: 0) <some error message> and hangs until I either reboot or power off the SCSI disks, in which case booting continues normally (it starts to probe devices on ISA bus). Of course, in that case I cannot use the SCSI disks. This happens between FreeBSD boot-prompt and "ncr0 waiting for scsi devices to settle". When the machine boots normally, it really waits that 15 seconds (I have options "SCSI_DELAY=15" in my kernel config-file). After that it finds all my 3 SCSI disks and booting continues normally. The problem exists also with the default GENERIC-kernel. Previously I had an AHA-1542A, and it worked just fine with the same disks. Some facts about my machine: - FreeBSD version 2.1.5 - sd0: IBM WDS-3200 SCSI-2 - sd1: IBM MXT-540SL FAST SCSI-2 - sd2: MICROP 1578-15 SCSI-1 - two IDE drives, /kernel on wd0 The SCSI disks are on a separate minitower, connected with an external SCSI-2 cable to the controller. So, where can I look for the error before I take the controller back to the store where I bought it? Thanks in advance for any help! -- Kari Jokiranta Email: Kari.Jokiranta@hut.fi