Re: Booting Tyan Thunder K7 with onboard SCSI (AIC-7899W)

[Alexander Guy <a7r@andern.org>]

On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 11:20:52PM +0200, Jochem van Dieten wrote:
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> Has anybody had success at using an Tyan Thunder K7 with onboard SCSI or 
> another AIC-7899W based controller? Any tips/pointers etc?

I put together a Tyan K7X-based machine last night (same AIX-7899W, running
dual Seagate Cheetahs), and the only problems I've had w/ the latest i386
snapshot are:

	1) xl0/xl1 ``command not completed'' every once in a while, although
	   the ports seem to work fine.

	2) the machine hangs after probing the onboard IDE controller
	   (disabling pciide and wdc gets along w/ things.. but obviously
	   this doesn't help if you want to run ATA devices).

	3) npx0 post-probe seemed to hang the machine.  I disabled it, but 
	   I haven't looked at the implications of this.

I just went through a ``make build'' without any apparent instability.  I
can send you my dmesg if you're interested.


Alexander