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#! rnews 2239 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!cs.utexas.edu!atlantis.utmb.edu!news From: "Ernest Hymel" <ehymel@utmb.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem with NCR 53c810 PCI SCSI Date: 24 Oct 1996 16:11:52 GMT Organization: University of Texas Medical Branch Lines: 42 Message-ID: <01bbc1c6$0ae3b080$27366d81@masscomp> References: <54g4g0$t45@nntp.hut.fi> <54jbm3$19h@news_1.cyrix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: masscomp.utmb.edu X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Hi Kari, I missed your original post somehow, but I have the same scsi controller on my ASUS P6NP5 (PPro) board. I'm certainly no scsi master, but if you're still having problems, I would suggest checking the jumper on the SC200 card itself. If you have ONLY internal or ONLY external devices, the you must terminate the card by removing the jumper on the JP5 jumper. Otherwise remove this jumper. I have found that when you have this jumpered incorrectly, the system will behave just as you mentioned; all devices found on boot, but lots of strange problems afterward. Hope this helps, Ernest Hymel ehymel@utmb.edu --------------------------------------------------------- Kari T Jokiranta (kja2@cc.hut.fi) wrote: : Hi, : I have home an Asus 486 board with an NCR PCI SCSI-controller installed. : The controller works fine when I get the machine to boot with it... : Nine times of ten I get tons of error messages about not getting the size : of disks, (ncr0: 2: 0) command failed etc. (I'm writing this at school, so : I don't have the exact messages handy.) : It usually stops somewhere near (nrc0: 5: 0) <some error message> and : hangs until I either reboot or power off the SCSI disks, in which case : booting continues normally (it starts to probe devices on ISA bus). : Of course, in that case I cannot use the SCSI disks. : This happens between FreeBSD boot-prompt and "ncr0 waiting for scsi devices : to settle". When the machine boots normally, it really waits that 15 seconds : (I have options "SCSI_DELAY=15" in my kernel config-file). After that : it finds all my 3 SCSI disks and booting continues normally.