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In article <John.Matrow.386.00083A8F@KS.Symbios.COM> John.Matrow@KS.Symbios.COM (John Matrow) writes:

>Just remember that the SYM53C810 chip based SCSI controller
>requires a SYM53C8XX on the motherboard in order to provide
>a SCSI BIOS.

For Linux, though, this may not be an absolute necessity.  If you have
another device that you're willing to boot from (e.g. floppy or IDE) you
can boot a Linux kernel with the '810 driver - the rel11+ version of
this driver (and perhaps earlier ones as well) will work just fine even
if there isn't a copy of the SDMS SCSI BIOS on your machine.

I tried this out yesterday - disabled the SDMS BIOS on my ASUS SP3G.
The ROM BIOS couldn't see any hard drives at all (I don't use IDE), but
when I booted a copy of my standard Linux kernel from a floppy it found
both '810 controllers and mounted all four hard disks, and everything
worked fine.

Mind you, this isn't necessarily a setup I would recommend, but it does
work.

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