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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 does not detect first SCSI disk
Date: 22 Dec 1994 21:02:23 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3dc2pd$82f@hdxu03.telecom.ptt.nl>,
Jakob Schripsema,HD0.122,050-855537 <sch@telecom.ptt.nl> wrote:
>We tried to install FreeBSD (1.1.5 and 2.0R) on a Dell Omniplex 566 with
>PCI SCSI controller (NCR 53C810 ?). SCSI devices are a DEC DSP3053LS hard
>disc and a NEC CD-ROM drive. The driver detects the CD-ROM drive (ID == 5)
>but does not detect the DEC hard disc (ID == 0). And what's hurting really
>hard: Linux runs fine :-( If somebody knows how to fix this annoying
>situation PLEASE answer.

Does the controller report the card properly?  Do you have the motherboard
BIOS properly configured to use the NCR controller?  Is everything terminated
in the proper way?

I'm not saying that FreeBSD is right and Linux is wrong, but different drivers
can be sensitive to different things, and it could be that you have some
misconfiguration that Linux simply isn't bothered by.  I've used the NCR
controller just fine in multiple FreeBSD 2.0 boxes, so I'm pretty sure it
works!  Also, news isn't the best way to get support on FreeBSD problems.
For more support on the NCR driver, please talk to our team member in
charge of that:  Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org>.

Thanks.

						Jordan