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Re: NCR53c810 SCSI Card Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Wed Aug 19 01:31:15 1998
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 01:29:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
Reply-To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Henrik Johansson <henrik@lcdata.se>
cc: Ryan Kirkpatrick <rkirkpat@nag.cs.colorado.edu>,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <35D96A81.B1D60804@lcdata.se>
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Henrik Johansson wrote:
> 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
No...the 810 is a biosless card.
> > Aug 16 15:43:42 farstar kernel: ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0
> > Aug 16 15:43:42 farstar kernel: ncr53c8xx: not initializing, both I/O and memory mappings disabled
> > Aug 16 15:43:42 farstar kernel: scsi: 1 host.
I'm not sure what that indicates, but Gerard will probably speak up.
> > This machine also has a buslogic scsi card driving two 2GB seagate
> > drives (one being boot disk), with no problems. There is on board IDE, but
> > there is only a single channel active, and nothing connected to it. There
> > is also a 3c590 PCI Ethernet card, and a PCI video card. I have set the
> > jumpers on the NCR SCSI host to "Int D" and "Int A" with no more luck.
I think you need it set for INT A. Also...make sure the NCR 810 is not
sharing an IRQ with another card other than perhaps the Buslogic. If it
shares with the network card, one of the cards is likely to fail.
> > Does this card not work via modules, or is there something else I
> > am missing? I bought this card used, so it is possible that it is bad,
It can work via modules.
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