Re: SuperMicro P54VL-PCI Motherboard and NCR53c810 PCI SCSI card

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From: Juergen Ilse
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 18:19

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Hallo,
Al Sary (asary@elaine41.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
: Hi.
: 
: Does anyone know if an NCR53c810 based PCI SCSI card will work in a
: SuperMicro P54VL-PCI motherboard?  Or do I need a card with a bios?
: If so, will I be able to boot from the SCSI drive, or only from IDE?
: 

I don't know, if this board has bios support for the NCR-SCSI-controllers
in the ROM-BIOS. 

: Incidentally, is anyone using this motherboard with linux?  I haven't
: installed linux yet, but want to pretty soon.  Any comments, helpful hints
: would be greatly appreciated.

If you want to use SCSI only with linux, you can use the NCR-controller,
because the linux-devicedriver does not need the BIOS. In this case you
have to load the kernel from another Harddisk, from Floppy or over the net.
I think this should work even if you don't have a BIOS on the controller
nor in the ROM-BIOS of your mainboard. I have such a controller and a board
without ROM-BIOS support for it. It works well with linux but it does not
work with DOS / WINDOWS / OS/2.

: 
: Thanks in advance.

hope that helps,
cia
		Juergen Ilse									(ilse@asys-h.de)
				"Why use Windows since there is a door..."

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