From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jan 20 18:17:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA20323 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 18:17:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (metriclient-6.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA20318 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 18:17:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id SAA07610; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 18:17:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 18:17:10 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: Bill Paul cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP C1752-66500 cheapo SCSI card In-Reply-To: <199701201735.MAA04150@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Bill Paul wrote: > > Anybody know if this cheapo card will work with the nca driver? > The card I have originally came with an HP Scanjet IIc scanner: > it's an 8-bit ISA card with an NCR 53C400 chip. The board is very > simple: there's a grand total of two ICs, plus one 4 bit switchblock. > Naturally, I can't find the manual than goes with it (I found it while > rummaging around in a storage cabinet) so I have no idea what the > switches do. And of course they didn't bother to silkscreen any > hints onto the board even though there's plenty of room. I tried it with > the Jan 18th SNAP but the nca driver didn't detect it. well.. that ncr chip does work (at least with a 960323 or 960801 snap)... I've had an old 8bit card with it on it.... the card I have has a block of 8... it probably doesn't have a bios rom on it... but you might try 0x[23][45]0 for the iobase... also... irqs 3, 5, or 7... > Anybody know what the switch settings do and whether or not this > thing can be made to play nice with FreeBSD? I realize it's practically > junk, but then so is most of my equipment. :) it is really quite bad... on my old machine... if I did any type of transfer off a 2x cdrom.. the cpu would hit max usage due to the polled io nature of the card... but it does work for cdroms :)... hope you get it working.. ttyl.. John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)