From: Stephen Shirley (diamond at domain csn.ul.ie)
Date: Thu 15 Jul 1999 - 12:10:23 IST
Right - thank you very much, it works perfectly now, although getting this far
almost broke my sanity:
I checked the yamaha firmware version, and it was
already 1.0g, which is still the latest. Then I decided to upgrade my scsi
card's bios. So, I booted into '98 (arrggghhhh!!!!), and downloaded the latest
drivers for '98, and the latest NVRAM and Flash ROM updates. I then upgraded
the drivers, and then NVRAM. Now I should have definetly done the Flash ROM
update from dos, but the readme.txt said a dos box would do fine. So I, in all
my glorious innocence, tried to flash from a dos box in '98. The little proggie
claimed to have found "Adapter ? at address 1000". Right address, but note the
"?". Fool that I am, I went ahead, and flashed it anyway. '98 immeadiately
froze for about 10 sec, and even after the program had finished (with a whole
truck load of errors) '98 continuse to freeze on and off for the next 5 mins.
So I rebooted, or at least tried to - the computer would not boot with the scsi
card in. It hung every time the bios probed the PCI bus (NOOOoooo!!!!!). So
what could I do? Computer won't boot with card in; can't fix card without
booting the computer; I pulled out large chunks of hair.
Amazingly, a friend of mine has a PII-266 Dell that booted with the
card in, despite giving a "CMOS Checksum ERROR". I was able to reflash the
card, from _real_ dos this time, and all is well now. Linux detects the drive
just perfectly now, as long as there is a standard cd in it, so thanks for all
the advice.
Steve
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> > It's a Qlogic ISP PCI Ultra-Wide scsi card - bout 2 years old. I went into
> > the onboard settings and changed "Negotiate Sync" to no, and it worked!!!
> > I've no idea how I got it working last nite - maybe I changed that setting
> > by mistake - anyway it works now - thank you very much!!!
> >
> The problem is with Ultra and/or Wide negotiation. both should be disabled
> (until you upgrade the firmware to 1.0g).
>
> If you leave it on non-sync it'll go really really slow. The drive only has
> a problem with Ultra or Wide. So set the drive to Sync at 10M/s aka "Fast".
> And disable wide-negotiation for your yamaha. But it shouldn't have a
> problem with "Fast" scsi aka "Sync-10" or whatever.
>
> i had the exact same problem i bought a yam 4416s 4 weeks ago. I had to
> upgrade the firmware to get it going. (no scsi bios).
>
> -paul.
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