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Compaq Prosignia VS with onboard ncr53c810.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Barry)
Mon Oct 23 11:48:46 1995
From: Jim Barry <Jim.Barry@ilp.com>
To: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 95 13:13:00 BST
Hi,
I've been trying to get an answer to this for a long time from my Slackware
vendor, comp.os.linux.hardware and so on, but with no success. Here goes
again...
I'm trying to get Linux (Slackware 2.3.0) going on a Compaq Prosignia
VS. The SCSI chip on the motherboard has ncr53c810 printed on it,
though Windows 95 seems to think it is a ncr53c710. Both these chips are in
the Linux supported hardware list, but Linux fails to detect any SCSI
host.
I am running the 'standard' SCSI boot disk (created with lininst.exe)
and, according to the BIOS setup, my NCR is set to base 0x8000,
interrupt 11. At the boot prompt I tried both these lines:
boot> ramdisk ncr53c810=0x8000,11
boot> ramdisk ncr53c710=0x8000,11
but no SCSI hosts or devices are found. Any ideas? What are the
'defaults' for the NCR drivers? The kernel version is 1.2.8.
If I cannot get the little *!@ working, my only alternative is to buy a new
SCSI adapter (probably ISA) which seems ludicrous as the NCR is apparently
the adapter of choice for Linux on PCI systems.
Thanks in advance,
Jim Barry <jim@ilp.com>
Interactive Learning Productions Ltd.
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
