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Re: Fail to detect NCR53C875 on Proliant7000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Thu Jul 2 17:16:03 1998
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 14:08:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
cc: Xintian Wu <xintian@cse.ogi.edu>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980702214403.696A-100000@localhost>
The proliant 7000 is an i2o box as well so there should be an i860 on
motherboard. the 7000 has 9 pci on two buses and the 5000 has secn on two.
The extra hardware involved in it being an i2o motherboard certainly add
to the complexity of the board.
joelja
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Gerard Roudier wrote:
>
> On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Xintian Wu wrote:
>
> > Sorry, I forgot to mention that the same kernel configuration
> > works fine on a Compaq Proliant 5000 server (for both .79 & .107).
>
> In my previous reply, I assumed wrongly you were trying 2.1.108.
>
> Since there is no significant ncr driver difference involving the
> detection code between 2.1.79 and 2.1.107, I would think that the
> problem is related to a major difference in the PCI hardware between
> the Proliant 5000 and 7000 (bridging, ...).
> BTW, 2.1.108 has some changes in the PCI code and a ncr53c8xx driver
> major release. You should give this kernel a try, IMO.
>
> Regards,
> Gerard.
>
>
>
>
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