This is odd, we sell boxes with a motherboard that uses the
same chip, in fact we've donated one to OpenBSD developers
just to be sure, and we've never had a problem since 2.9. Are
you sure that this mobo is good and/or turned on at the bios?

-mike

Michael C. Ibarra
Hawk Technologies, Inc
http://www.hawk.com
800.hawk.com

Quoting Ioan Nemes <inemestransylvania.com.au>:

> Greetings,
>
> According to the `siop` man page, the the `siop` driver supports
> the following LSI/Symbios Logic/NCR 53c8xx and related SCSI controller
> chips:
>
> - 53c810, 53c810a and 53c815 (Fast SCSI)
> - 53c820, 53c825 and 53c825a (Fast-Wide SCSI)
> - 53c860 (Ultra SCSI)
> - 53c875 and 53c875j (Ultra-Wide SCSI)
> - 53c876 (Dual Ultra-Wide SCSI)
> - 53c885 (Ultra-Wide SCSI and Ethernet)
> - 53c895 and 53c895a (Ultra2-Wide SCSI)
> - 53c896 (PCI 64bit, dual Ultra2-Wide SCSI)
> - 53c1010 (PCI 64bit, dual Ultra3-Wide SCSI. NOTE: at this
> time siop *supports* at most Ultra2-Wide with this chip)
> - 53c1510D (dual Ultra2-Wide SCSI)
>
> siop replaces the older ncr driver which supported most of these devices.
>
> I am trying to install OpenBSD 3.0 on an Intel SAI2 server board (dual
> Intel PIII 1.13 GHz CPUs, 512 MB registered RAM).
>
> The included LSI20160 (*single* channel) Ultra 160 SCSI HBA (*not*
> surface mountad, but included, and sold together with the motherboard),
> correctly identifies the attached SCSI devices (at the boot time, or if
> I am starting the LSI SCSI utility - <Ctr+C>):
>
> IBM DDYS S93E hard disk (SCSI ID 0)
> ARCHIVE Python 0416-XXX7550 tape drive (SCSI ID 5)
> 53C1010-66 host adapter (SCSI ID 7)
>
> However, booting from the 3.0 CD-ROM, OpenBSD can't see the controller
> and consequently the attached SCSI devices:
>
> .....
>
> vendor "Symbios Logic", unknown product 0x21 (class mass storage, subclass
> SCSI, rev 0x01) at pci0 dev 6 function 0 not configured
>
> .....
>
> Did somebody successfully used this motherbord & SCSI conteroller with
> OpenBSD 3.0?
>
> Ioan
>

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