Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:36:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: vadik likholetov <vadik@sensi.pu.ru> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SCSI NCR53C810 troubles Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960913223547.615U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.960912222907.vadik@sensi.pu.ru>
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On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, vadik likholetov wrote: > Good time of the day! > > I've run in some troubles. > > I have a 486/sis496 machine. Also I have SCSI NCR53C810 controller installed > I have 3 versions(3 boads) of this controller. I have , as I mentioned, > SiS496 motherboard. Motherboard's Award BIOS does not have support for this SCSI > controller. > > Every controller runs properly on OPTI486 with AmiBIOS SCSI controller support. > > But only one controller RUNS properly on *my* machine under FreeBSD 2.1.5. > The second one fails after proper initialization during bus scanning phase > with 'error' message & controller register dump. Also it hangs the system. > The third one can't even initialize properly. It says '...on pci:9 irq ??... > ...invalid irq 255...'. You need to go into BIOS setup and assign IRQs for each of the PCI slots. The NCRs won't auto-assign IRQs. I had the same problem with my 53C815 with onboard BIOS. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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