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#! rnews 1756 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!f400.n712!f515.n712!f401.n711!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Distribution: world X-Comment-To: elcan@phwave.phys.lsu.edu From: Trev Roydhouse <Trev.Roydhouse@f401.n711.z3.fidonet.org> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 95 21:28:00 +1100 Subject: Re: ncr 53c810 help, please Message-ID: <1501675347@f401.n711.z3.ftn> Organization: Sentry -- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia X-FTN-AREA: COMP.UNIX.BSD.FREEBSD.MISC X-FTN-Tearline: QM v1.30 X-FTN-Origin: Sentry -- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (3:711/401.0) X-FTN-SEEN-BY: 711/401 501 712/400 515 X-FTN-PATH: 711/401 712/515 X-FTN-PATH: 712/400 Lines: 24 > Here's my situation: I bought the NCR 53c810 to > replace my Always 3000 in order to run FreeBSD. However, > I can't get my machine to recognize the board. At > boot-up, the bios doesn't so up like the board's docs > say it should, then when boot off of the boot.flp, it > finds the board but reports it at irq ?? and says > "int register not assigned by bios." The '810 is in a > Triton motherboard with Award PnP extentions, and the > mainboard manual says "system BIOS supports > NCR810 SCSI BIOS firmware." Am I reading too much > from that statement? I had a similar situation with an Adaptec 1540CF SCSI host adapter in an identical sounding motherboard/BIOS setup. I played around with the Award BIOS settings (not very scientifically I'm afraid) and it eventually worked. I *think* disabling the host adapter's IRQ in the PCI Config screen was the key (by default, IRQ 11 was listed as the "third available IRQ", but of course it wasn't :-) Good luck!