[4567] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: NCR53c810 SCSI Card Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Kirkpatrick)
Tue Aug 18 09:49:48 1998
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 07:40:58 -0600 (MDT)
From: Ryan Kirkpatrick <rkirkpat@nag.cs.colorado.edu>
To: Henrik Johansson <henrik@lcdata.se>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <35D96A81.B1D60804@lcdata.se>
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Henrik Johansson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Have You checked that the BIOS IS enabled on the card; if disabled
> the driver won´t be able to initialize the card using its BIOS-probing
> feature.
From what I understand, this card has no BIOS to begin with.
During boot, even before Linux starts loading, there is no message from
the NCR SCSI card, while I do get a standard bus detection and setup
option message from my Buslogic card.
If the scsi driver is trying to find a BIOS in order to
initialize, and there is no BIOS, is there someway to get around this
BIOS-probing feature? Thanks.
> Another problem could be the fact that the card was taken from
> an Alpha. These architectures adresses the low byte opposed to the
> X86 which adresses the high byte first. This COULD cause problems
> with SCSI-cards, making them unresponsive. If this is the case, You
> might want to look through Your manual for an eventual pin to change this
> in Your favour. However, since the Alpha seems unable to deal with the
> card this may prove irrelevant. ;-)
No, it was not taken from an Alpha, I just tried to use it in one
before I tried to use it in a P100. As far as I know, it did work at one
time, for another person, just fine under Linux. (It was bought used.)
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