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From: zax@zaxanoid.tcp.co.uk (Zax  (RE Rees))
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI PCI host adapter
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 00:05:10 GMT
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rudy@hcl.com (Rudy Amid) wrote:

>Steven A. DuChene (sad@sduchene.mindspring.com) wrote:
>: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) wrote:
>: >    NCR53c810 SCSI-2 controllers are advertised at $80 each, if you
>: >have a motherboard that supports them (I believe all the recent ASUS
>: >PCI boards do).  Very fast, very reliable controllers.  I've got four
>: >of them here (not all in one machine, unfortunately ;-)).

>: Actually if you are only going to use the SCSI devices in Linux and don't plan
>: on booting from them Linux can see the card and any devices hung off of it
>: without the NCR BIOS in the motherboard. This is how I am using the a 53c810
>: $79 card in my system.


Seem to be a lot of people out there who can get their NCR 810 cards
to work.....I can't!

I get a timeout on the first test, and some comments about checking
that I'm using Int A. I am!

My hardware is a TMC Triton P75  Award Bios motherboard and a Quantum
SCSI drive (in addition to E-ide for booting)

I have read the SCSI howto, and tried all combinations of edge/level,
Int A,B,C,D, Automatic and manual IRQ allocation etc.

Can ANYBODY tell me what to try next?

(the card works perfectly under Dos/win3.1, Windows95, OS/2 2.0, OS/2
2.1, and OS/2 Warp in the same system)

TIA