From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 22:36:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA05183 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:36:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line7.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.71]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA05176 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:36:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00729; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:36:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:36:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: vadik likholetov cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SCSI NCR53C810 troubles In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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