Subject: Re: DAC960-1 (EISA) Problem
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: ed palmer <ed_palmer@sasktel.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/20/2002 22:58:16
At 06:36 PM 20/04/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 10:33:15AM -0600, ed palmer wrote:
> > At 12:31 PM 20/04/2002 +0200, you wrote:
> > >On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 06:08:11PM -0600, ed palmer wrote:
> > >> I'm a newbie with NetBSD, so please excuse any dumb questions.
> > >>
> > >> I'm trying to get an old EISA DAC960-1/2 raid controller working under
> > >> NetBSD 1.5.3_RC1.  I noticed that this particular model isn't listed in
> > >> mlx.c as part of mlx_cname, but it's EISA identifier, MLX0073 is listed
> > >in
> > >> eisadevs and mlx_eisa.c.
> > >
> > >There's no mlx_eisa.c in the 1.5 branch, it's there only in -current.
> > >Are you sure you looked at the rigth source tree ?
> >
> > I think I did.  I didn't compile the source files from -current, I used 
> the
> > binary snapshot.  The first time I loaded NetBSD, I used the 1.5.2
> > binaries.  My card was identified something like 'unknown EISA card
> > MLX0073'.  I finally discovered that support for the card was coming in
> > 1.5.3 so I waited for awhile and recently downloaded the files from:
> >
> > ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/snapshot/20020312-1.5.3_RC1
> >
> > I downloaded everything in this directory and it's subdirectories, created
> > boot floppies from the images in the installation/floppy directory and 
> then
> > reinstalled.
> >
> > Now, instead of 'unknown EISA card MLX0073', dmesg shows 'Mylex DAC960',
> > but in both cases, the card wasn't configured.
>
>I checked out again the 1.5 branch; support for eisa MLX isn't there. Only
>in -current. You should try the 1.5ZA snapshot.

Okay, I'll give it a try.  Thanks for the help.

Ed