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Re: Gigabyte 53c810 problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
Sun Sep 17 16:47:26 1995

To: "John Comyns" <jcomyns@panix.com>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 16 Sep 1995 22:53:02 EDT."
             <199509170253.WAA25913@panix.com> 
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 11:01:21 -0600
From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@poohsticks.org>

In message <199509170253.WAA25913@panix.com>, jcomyns@panix.com writes:
>	I just got a Gigabyte GA-586ATP motherboard and a GA-410
>pci scsi board and I can't get it to work with Linux. It works 
>with dos. When I boot to Linux it detects the board at irq 0.
>According to the how to this can be caused by a defective pci 
>bios or a configuration problem. It gives a work around of 
>editing the source code and recompiling the kernel. I have tried
>this and it didn't work. Is there a command I can give Linux 
>when it is booting up to get it to recognize it on irq 9?

No.  Like the SCSI-HOWTO says, you have a configuration problem : either
the system really isn't being configured for IRQ9, the board and system
are disagreeing over level active versus. edge triggered interrupts, etc.



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