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Re: Re; ncr53c400a
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jordi)
Fri Apr 21 09:01:53 2000
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 14:46:56 +0200
From: Jordi <jordi@sindominio.net>
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Hello Stephen!
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 09:08:32PM +0200, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
> vorlon-kosh wrote:
> >Someone can teach me how to boot to linux using loadlin?
> >If not, I'm giving up about using the NCR53c400a scsi=20
> >card, someone can indicate me a good one?
>=20
> Do not despair. Rescue is on the way :-).
> Actually, I disassembled the mini400i.sys driver, and found the
> magic incantation which enables the HP-card and maps it into the
> IO-space.
>=20
> The mapping seems to work just fine. The only part I'm still struggling
> with is the fact that the NCR5380.c driver apears to be *hopelessly* non-=
SMP
> safe (and I happen to be running an SMP box).
I'm not on a SMP box, so I thought you could send me a patch for this to see
if it works here. Can you?
> In case anyone cares (I'll be including this in an official patch
> later, which also fixes the SMP-compliance, I hope), this is what the
> HP card needs to get mapped at port 0x280:
Any idea in what kernel this will be included?
> No need to boot from DOS anymore.
I hope :)
Thank you,
Jordi
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