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Sorry about that last post.

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.
: [text deleted]
: : and at all times the *#$%$##@$%% message (after recognising the ncr53c810
: : chip and printing the adress 0xf8007000, io 0x6700, irq 0) is
: : that IRQ0 is not free.
: [ text deleted]

I am experiencing the same problem as Mr. Suter.  My system:
	ASUS P90 (PCI/I-P54NP4) mainboard
	Award Modular BIOS V4.50G, #401A0-0201 with NCR PCI SCSI BIOS
	 V3.04.00
	GA-410 PCI SCSI card with NCR 53c810 chip, set to INTA and
	 IRQ 9 per mfr. instructions

Observed behavior:
	NCR BIOS correctly shows SCSI devices on startup
	DOS access works fine (of course, DOS probably doesn't use ints)
	DOS based NCR CAM driver reports IRQ=00, DMA=0 when loaded
	Linux boot gives same IRQ 0 message reported by Mr. Suter, with
	 exception of memory 0xfc000000, io 0xd000
	
I had tried all of the posted tricks, including boot parameters, IRQ
changes for assignment and level/edge, write buffer and burst disable/
enable, to no avail.  It is now quite apparent that the BIOS is not
providing proper parameters for the driver.

Can anyone tell me how to contact Award Software for a flash BIOS 
upgrade?  I would be so much happier to see the proper IRQ reported and
then have the boot hang (as reported elsewhere) than have Linux merrily
start without the drive ;)  Guess I'll have to hack the driver either
way. 

					Thanks in advance,
					Stan Pennington
					(206) 632-9190