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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.msfc.nasa.gov!info.uah.edu!news.lsu.edu!phwave.phys.lsu.edu!ELCAN 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 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4btstq$18dk@te6000.otc.lsu.edu> Reply-To: elcan@phwave.phys.lsu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: phwave.phys.lsu.edu 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