NCR 810 trouble with 1.3.7[56], works with Slack 3.0.0

Mikael Abrahamsson (mike@uplift.sparta.lu.se)
Thu, 21 Mar 1996 23:37:18 +0100 (MET)


I borrowed an NCR 810 card called PCI-80S of which I was going to install
into my linux box. I ran into problems with my 1.3.7[67]. (tried both as
I saw here was some NCR stuff updated in the .77)

Just for the record, I tried the slackware 3.0.0 bootdisk called
scsinet2, and it said the following: (version 1.2.13)

scsi-ncr53c7,8xx : at PCI bus 0, device 8, function 0
scsi-ncr53c7,8xx : warning : revision of 2 is greater than 1.
scsi-ncr53c7,8xx : NRC53c810 at memory 0xf0802000, io 0x6000 irq 11
scsi0 : using io mapped adress
scsi0 : using initiator ID 7
scsi0 : using level active interrupts
scsi0 : burst lenth 8
scsi0 : using 40MHz SCSI clock
scsi0 : NCR code relocated to 0x3b88f0
scsi0 : test 1 started
scsi0 : NCR 53c[7,8]xx (rel 4)
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: IMS Model: CDD2000/00 Rev 1.20
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CDROM sr0 at scsi0, id 2, lun 0
Vendor: IBM Model: 0661371 Rev: B i
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, id 6, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk 1 total.
SCSI Hardware sector size is 512 bytes on device sda

and then on till it asks me for the ramdisk disk.

Now, with 1.3.7[67] with 53c{7,8}xx support:

scsi-ncr53c7,8xx : at PCI bus 0, device 8, function 0
scsi-ncr53c7,8xx : NCR53c810 at memory 0xf0802000, io 0x6000, irq 11
scsi0: burst length 8
scsi0: reset ccf to 3 from 0
scsi0: NCR code relocated to 0xc5fc (virt 0x0000c5fc)
scsi0: test 1 started
scsi0: NCR53c{7,8}xx (rel 17)
scsi : 1 host
scsi0: target 2 rejected SDTR
scsi0: setting target 2 to asynchtonous SCSI

and then freeze, nothing happens. ctrl-alt-del doesnt work, have to press
the reset-button.

I even tried to unplug the CDD2000, and it just sais that target 6
supports asynchronous SCSI and sets it to that and then freeze.

If I dont have any stuff at all on the scsi chain it works, just says 1
scsi host detected and 0 devices and goes to the boot-stage.

Hardware:

P90/24 megs, cheapo mb
NCR 810 (PCI-80S)
NE2000 WinBond PCI network card (detected in 1.3.76, not in 1.2.13)
S3 Trio64 PCI gfx-card
Soundblaster Pro8 (used for a panasonic CDROM)
Soundblaster AWE32ve (used for sound)

I tried all kinds of different PCI config options in the motherboard but
it wont change a thing.

If someone thinks it might be a motherboard thing, mail me this and I'll
try it on a P75 intel triton machine. (the machine it was supposed to go
into, but which I didnt want to bring down to try it out)