sym0 weirdness

[Christoph Kukulies]

Another gotcha:

I had some other cards using the Symbios 53C810, this time an ASUS SC-200 PCI board and tried that with the GENERIC
kernel (which has the sym driver built in).

The ASUS SC-200 board isn’t recognized at all by the kernel. 


I’m baffled. (!?)

—
Christoph

> Am 02.05.2020 um 13:08 schrieb Christoph P.U. Kukulies <kuku at kukulies.org>:
> 
> Seems that HTML coded Email doesn't get through. Should have known that :)
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> Am 02.05.2020 um 10:27 schrieb Christoph P.U. Kukulies:
>> 
>> I'm trying to connect and detect some SCSI device on an externanally connected SCSI bus.
>> 
>> Controller is a Symbios PCI card 2520.
>> 
>> With the cable connected and one device at the end of the bus (1,5m cable, internally terminated by the SCSI2D controller card), I'm always getting camcontrol rescan all to hang, üroducing lots of errers then in the dmesg.
>> 
>> This is the picture right after system boot:
>> 
>> sym0: <810> mem 0xc0000000-0xc000000f irq 20 at device 5.0 on pci4
>> sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-10, SE, parity checking
>> CACHE TEST FAILED: reg dstat-sstat2 readback ffffffff.
>> sym0: CACHE INCORRECTLY CONFIGURED.
>> device_attach: sym0 attach returned 6
>> 
>> 
>> Now, when I use camcontrol to detect my SCSI devices connected to sym0, all I get listed are my hard disks:
>> 
>> 
>> # camcontrol devlist
>> <KINGSTON SA400S37240G SBFKB1D1>   at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (ada0,pass0)
>> <WDC WD10EADS-22M2B0 01.00A01>     at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (ada1,pass1)
>> <Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120GB EXT0AB0Q>  at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (ada2,pass2)
>> <SAMSUNG HD502HJ 1AJ100E4>         at scbus3 target 0 lun 0 (ada3,pass3)
>> <Verbatim STORE N GO 1.00>         at scbus7 target 0 lun 0 (pass4,da0)
>> # camcontrol devlist -b 1
>> scbus0 on ahcich0 bus 0
>> scbus1 on ahcich1 bus 0
>> scbus2 on ahcich2 bus 0
>> scbus3 on ahcich3 bus 0
>> scbus4 on ahcich4 bus 0
>> scbus5 on ahcich5 bus 0
>> scbus6 on ata1 bus 0
>> scbus7 on umass-sim0 bus 0
>> scbus-1 on xpt0 bus 0
>> 
>> Clueless.
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Christoph
>> 
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> Am 02.05.2020 um 10:27 schrieb Christoph P.U. Kukulies:
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