[1301] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Symbios Logic/NCR 8250S in Giga-Byte GA-486AM mainboard.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerard Roudier)
Thu Jan 23 19:06:36 1997
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 00:56:08 +0000 (GMT)
From: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
To: Technical Support Staff <tech-gbt@giga-byte.com>
cc: Dirk Foersterling <dirk@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>, support@symbios.com,
Linux SCSI list <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <97Jan23.161913-0500_est.213037-330+421@vger.rutgers.edu>
On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Technical Support Staff wrote:
> 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.
1. A well designed mother board should allow users to disable the NCR BIOS
from the setup.
2. A serious mother board manufacturer should be able to provide
custumers up-to-date set-up and bioses.
In my opinion, the right behaviour of a well designed NCR board is to
do just the opposite you suggest since:
1. The motherboard set-up is most of the time in flash memory and so
easy to update.
2. Low cost NCR based board use normal rom.
The order of BIOS is decided by the setup and in my opinion, a well
designed setup should know what BIOSES it provides.
So, it should be able to detect that a board have a more recent
NCR BIOS and call it rather than its older one.
Gerard.
