[377] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Motherboard problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Konold)
Sat Jul 15 18:09:22 1995
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 19:50:58 +0200
From: Martin Konold <zxmmz01@student.uni-tuebingen.de>
To: Felix Herrera Priano <fpriano@ull.es>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <474*/S=fpriano/O=ull/PRMD=iris/ADMD=mensatex/C=es/@MHS>
On Fri, 14 Jul 1995, Felix Herrera Priano wrote:
Your BIOS of the Motherboards needs Support for the NCR because
the cheapy NCR 810 does not have its own BIOS.
All newer Motherboards do have this Extension for NCR support.
Have a look in the leaflet which came with your Motherboard.
The AHA2940 comes with its own BIOS. So I do not expect any problems
with this on. But it is of course still not in the 1.2.11 kernel and
much more expensive.
If your Motherboard is from Intel (Plato) or Asus then I know
of newer Flash BIOS upgrades which do have NCR support
> Finally I decided to get the NCR53c810 controller instead of the AHA2940
> but I have a big problem:
>
> My Pentium 100Mhz motherboard (uses an SIS chipset and the Award 94 BIOS)
> does not recognize the NCR SCSI controller. We have change most of the
> BIOS parameters and we have enable/disable the built-in IDE controller
> that comes with the motherboard.
>
> Do you know what's going on?
> Maybe the SIS chipset is not compatible at all?
>
> If I cannot solve the problem do I need to get a new motherboard or simply
> get the 2940?
>
> Felix
-- martin
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