Subject: Re: ncr woes on 1.4
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/27/1999 02:23:51
In article <199906270200.MAA29764@balrog.supp.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au>,
Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org> wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>I tried to boot a generic 1.4 kernel on my noname AMD 586/160 with an
>ASUS NCR SCSI controller that is currently running 1.3.3 quite happily.
>It has real problems configuring the controller and then of course
>doesn't find any disks. Here's the dmesg output for old and new:
>
> ---- common to 1.3.3 and 1.4 ----
> ncr0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: ncr 53c810a fast10 scsi
> ncr0: interrupting at irq 9
> ncr0: minsync=25, maxsync=206, maxoffs=8, 16 dwords burst, normal dma fifo
> ncr0: single-ended, open drain IRQ driver
> ---- on 1.3.3 ----
> ncr0: restart (scsi reset).
> ---- on 1.4 ----
> CACHE TEST FAILURE: host wrote 1, ncr read 3827772
> CACHE TEST FAILURE: ncr wrote 2, host read 0
> CACHE INCORRECTLY CONFIGURED
> ---- END ----
>
>Any ideas from anyone? I can find nothing in the archives about this...
Disable the cache in the kernel. I am not sure if there is an option to do
that, but there might be in the bios.
christos