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Re: Symbios Logic/NCR 8250S in Giga-Byte GA-486AM mainboard.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Technical Support Staff)
Thu Jan 23 16:33:28 1997
To: dirk@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (Dirk Foersterling), support@symbios.com
From: Technical Support Staff <tech-gbt@giga-byte.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu (Linux SCSI list)
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 16:19:08 -0500
At 08:56 PM 1/22/97 +0100, Dirk Foersterling wrote:
>Dear technical support people,
>
>After the last two mails I sent (on Jan 14 /Jan 16), there were no
>answers from you. (Your usual reply time appeared to be two days, not
>including weekend). In case the mails got lost, I will repeat the
>problem. In addition to this, I'll send it to the linux-SCSI mailing
>list just in case somebody solved the problem before and is able to
>help me.
>
>I have a GigaByte GA-486AM PCI mainboard and trying to use a Symbios
>Logic / NCR 8250S SCSI Hostadapter with SDMS 4.0 / NCRPCI 4.01.00.
>
>At Bootup the Hostadapter BIOS tells me, it's SDMS 3.0 / NCRPCI 3.06.00
>(or 3.07.00, I don't boot very often.)
>
>A short summary of the answers from you is:
>
>1) Technical support at Symbios told me to turn off SCSI BIOS in the
> mainboard BIOS setup.
>
>2) GigaByte technical support told me, a well-designed hostadapter will
> ignore the mainboard BIOS.
>
>ad 1) : There is no such option in the mainboard BIOS setup. I use the
>latest version (4am1107.bin) of the BIOS.
>
>ad 2) : Is this right? Gigabyte tells me, Symbios cannot produce
>well-designed PCI to SCSI hostadapters?
>
>My situation: I did not know, that the SDMS BIOS is included in the
>mainboard BIOS. The manual didn't tell me.
>
>The BIOS ver. 4.0 of the adapter was one of the reasons, why I bought
>it. I wanted to be able to do rearranging of SCSI and NON-SCSI disks,
>and, of course, wanted to have the enhanced performance that the SDMS
>4.0 BIOS provides. (If I read the right source, this is scatter/gather
>for example).
>
>What can I do to get the SDMS 4.0 BIOS up and running? (I use DOS,
>Windows, OS/2 Warp and Linux).
>
> Regards,
>
> Dirk Försterling
>
>--
> D i r k F "o r s t e r l i n g
> dirk@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/~dirk
> ----------
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> "Obere Gaussklammer ist 5." - R.K.
>
Hi
The NCR BIOS ususlly is not activited unless there is a NCR SCSI card plug
in the slot. A well design card should be able to stop the NCR BIOS blok on
the motherboards BIOS being load up. Since block address in a default address.
Thank you for choosing Giga-Byte.
Technical Support Staff
http://www.giga-byte.com
