On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:56:37PM +0300, Jarkko Teppo wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Stupid question of the week: Is it absolutely necessary to run ecu if I 
> add an Adaptec 2740T (EISA) card into an Alphastation 600 ? 
> 
> I added the card, ran ecu (1.11A) and it didn't find the card (ADP7771 or
> similar). So I googled around and found some files that looked promising:
> ADP7770 and !ADP7771. Ran ecu again, everything seemed to go fine but
> apparently the CFG-file wants to include an *OVL file and ecu didn't like
> that.

An OVL is a binary file. Guess what: unless specifically for a card
supported on Alpha that would be an Intel binary :-(

2740 was never a supported option on Alpha.

Only 1740A was, on the Jensen/Culzean machines.

You are probably stuck..

> sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <IBM, DNES-309170W, SA30> disk fixed 
> sd0: 8748 MB, 11474 cyl, 5 head, 312 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 17916240 sectors 
> sd0: sync (100.00ns offset 12), 16-bit (20.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing 
> ahc1: Timedout SCB already complete. Interrupts may not be functioning. 
> ahc1: Timedout SCB already complete. Interrupts may not be functioning.
> <<repeats for a while>>
> ahc1:SCB 0x3f - timed out 
> 
> The timeouts are coming from scsibus3 & 4, 1 & 2 are empty and the ahc1 (ie.
> the EISA card) only has a TLZ06 DDS drive. scsibus0 has one drive. Don't
> ask.
> 
> Before I start spamming more heavily (card state dumps :-) should the ecu
> configuration go smoothly before I tackle NetBSD ?

Yes, IRQ assignment is done by the ECU.

> Help out an EISA newbie :-)

Heck.. reminds me of my first job: designing an EISA dual channel SCSI HBA

:)

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