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Mr D. Suter (suter@fawlty8.eng.monash.edu.au) wrote:
: I have had no luck getting the boot disk to recognise
: my scsii disk (quantum empire 2Gb) on a PCI-sc200 card
: with the ncr53c810 chip.

I'm also having problems using the PCI-SC200 card.

: Other hardware: P90
:                 Diamond Viper (SE) PCI
:                 Prime 2C MKIII Super IDE controler (simply controlling
:                      the floppy - has jumper to disable the IDE)
:                 Motherboard has "award bios"

What Mainboard are you using ? I have an ASUS P5MP3 Rev. 3.1

: Runs fine under DOS.

Same here ...

I sent the following to Drew Eckhardt but didn't get a response.

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I'm having problems with my SCSI-Controller and nobody in our German
newsgroups can seem to help, in fact a lot of people here with the exact
same configuration are having the same problems.

I have an ASUS PCI/I P5MP3 (Rev. 3.1) Mainboard with the optional
NCR 53c810 based ASUS PCI-SC200 SCSI Controller.
The board has Mercury Revision 3.

When I boot Linux 1.1.64 (earlier versions don't work either...)
it prints the following:

bios32_init : BIOS32 Service Directory Structure at 0xfb0a0
bios32_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfb320
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.00 entry at 0xfb350
..
...
...
scsi1: at PCI BUS 0, device 6, function 0
scsi1: NCR53c810 at memory 0xfc000000, io 0xd000, irq 15

and then it just hangs ....

My BIOS is an AWARD v4.50G #401A0-0401 and my NCR BIOS is V3.0 PCI Rev 2.0
3.04.00
(I flash-upgraded from 0303 but to no avail ...)

I configured the card for INTA since all other settings print an error 
but continue booting ! That should be OK since my BIOS tells me to let 
all cards use INTA, since it will remap the IRQ's by itself ...

IRQ 15 is right, io I don't know but mem seems strange .... :

-d fc00:0
FC00:0000  13 C1 8E D5 E8 31 37 8B-EC 88 5E 13 1F 07 61 0A   .....17...^...a.
FC00:0010  E4 0F 85 04 00 FB CA 02-00 F9 FB CA 02 00 B3 03   ................
FC00:0020  EB E5 8B 4C FE E7 E1 E7-E1 89 4C FE E7 E1 E7 E1   ...L......L.....
FC00:0030  0C 0C E6 61 E7 E1 E7 E1-8A C4 E6 61 B3 01 EB AA   ...a.......a....
FC00:0040  FA 2E 0F 01 1E 13 C1 B8-40 00 8E D8 8E 16 69 00   ........@.....i.
FC00:0050  8B 26 67 00 E8 E1 36 B0-0F E8 2E 29 1F 07 61 8A   .&g...6....)..a.
FC00:0060  E0 E4 80 0A C0 74 01 F9-86 E0 FB CA 02 00 87 DB   .....t..........
FC00:0070  5B B0 30 E8 14 29 8A E0-B0 31 E8 0D 29 86 E0 CF   [.0..)...1..)...
-d e800:0
E800:0000  55 AA 20 E9 69 02 00 00-00 00 00 00 50 43 00 30   U. .i.......PC.0
E800:0010  00 09 07 00 00 01 00 00-59 3E 0D 0D 43 6F 70 79   ........Y>..Copy
E800:0020  72 69 67 68 74 20 31 39-39 33 20 4E 43 52 20 43   right 1993 NCR C
E800:0030  6F 72 70 6F 72 61 74 69-6F 6E 2E 20 20 20 20 20   orporation.     
E800:0040  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20-20 20 20 20 20 00 00 00                ...
E800:0050  00 00 05 00 00 42 41 4C-4C 41 52 44 5F 53 59 4E   .....BALLARD_SYN
E800:0060  45 52 47 59 5F 52 4F 4D-5F 53 49 4D 00 00 01 16   ERGY_ROM_SIM....
E800:0070  01 03 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 0C 68   ...............h
-d ec00:0
EC00:0000  55 AA 20 CB 28 63 29 20-43 4F 50 59 52 49 47 48   U. .(c) COPYRIGH
EC00:0010  54 20 31 39 38 34 2C 31-39 38 39 20 41 77 61 72   T 1984,1989 Awar
EC00:0020  64 20 53 6F 66 74 77 61-72 65 20 49 6E 63 2E 41   d Software Inc.A
EC00:0030  4C 4C 20 52 49 47 48 54-53 20 52 45 53 45 52 56   LL RIGHTS RESERV
EC00:0040  45 44 C3 CB 68 00 E0 68-55 C0 68 31 EC 68 EB 7C   ED..h..hU.h1.h.|
EC00:0050  EA 30 EC 00 F0 68 00 E0-68 66 C0 68 31 EC 68 84   .0...h..hf.h1.h.
EC00:0060  8B EA 30 EC 00 F0 32 C0-E6 92 F8 C3 FA B8 00 F0   ..0...2.........
EC00:0070  8E D8 FC 33 FF 8E C7 B8-00 F0 66 C1 E0 10 B8 53   ...3......f....S
-d f000:0
F000:0000  28 28 63 63 29 29 20 43-43 4F 4F 50 50 59 59 52   ((cc)) CCOOPPYYR
F000:0010  52 49 49 47 47 48 48 54-54 20 31 31 39 39 38 38   RIIGGHHTT 119988
F000:0020  34 34 2C 2C 31 31 39 39-38 38 39 39 41 41 77 77   44,,11998899AAww
F000:0030  61 61 72 72 64 64 20 53-53 6F 6F 66 66 74 74 77   aarrdd SSooffttw
F000:0040  77 61 61 72 72 65 65 20-49 49 6E 6E 63 63 2E 2E   waarree IInncc..
F000:0050  41 41 4C 4C 4C 4C 20 52-52 49 49 47 47 48 48 54   AALLLL RRIIGGHHT
F000:0060  54 53 53 20 52 52 45 45-53 53 45 45 52 52 56 56   TSS RREESSEERRVV
F000:0070  45 45 44 44 28 63 29 20-43 4F 50 59 52 49 47 48   EEDD(c) COPYRIGH
-q

Does the board live at fc00:0 or at e800:0 ?????
The kernel override ignored my settings .....

I also have an Adaptec 1542CF which works perfectly under Linux.
The combination Adaptec+NCR works great under MS-DOS but Linux doesn't like
my NCR, with or without the Adaptec installed.

Of course I could go on working like this but I'm such a performance addict
.... :-))))

Adaptec: 1.4MB/s
NCR: 3.4 MB/s

The choice is obvious ..... :-))))

I tried various IRQ settings, fiddled with the Cache/PCI Burst/Waitstates
/Rom Shadow settings ...... nothing .....


Greetings,
Markus

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