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From: elcan@phwave.phys.lsu.edu (philip elcan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: ncr 53c810 help, please
Date: 28 Dec 1995 10:52:42 GMT
Organization: LSU Experimental Relativity Group
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Reply-To: elcan@phwave.phys.lsu.edu
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First, I know that I shouldn't post a hardware question to this group. 
However, I know how popular the NCR 53c810 is in this community, so I was
hoping someone as new to this as I am stumbled across the problem I'm having
and can tell me what I'm doing wrong.

Here's my situation: I bought the NCR 53c810 to replace my Always 3000 in order
to run FreeBSD.  However, I can't get my machine to recognize the board.  At
boot-up, the bios doesn't so up like the board's docs say it should, then when
boot off of the boot.flp, it finds the board but reports it at irq ?? and says
"int register not assigned by bios."  The '810 is in a Triton motherboard with
Award PnP extentions, and the mainboard manual says "system BIOS supports
NCR810 SCSI BIOS firmware."  Am I reading too much from that statement?

Any pointers for someone that's been running round and round trying to get a
chance to run FreeBSD?


Oh, also, I read through the archives at www.freebsd.org.  There was an
article stressing to get active termination, but according to the description
in said article, I have passive termination on my board (221/231 on the
resistor packs).  What problems will this present, or am I looking at it now?


Thanks!
Philip Elcan
elcan@phgrav.phys.lsu.edu