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SubjectRe: NCR53C8XX Problem on Compaq Proliant 7000 (long)

I couldn't find any procedure in the ncr53c8xx that reads in the I/O address.
But I tried it anyway. It doesn't work. What kernel version were you using?
Seems the current driver only takes something like "tags:", "spar:"....

On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, C.J. Oster wrote:

> I've only dealt with a card of this type once, and I had the same problem.
> What I did was I booted into windows and figured out the io address. You
> could find this from the old kernel or something. Any way, then on boot,
> you say "LILO boot: linux ncr53c8xx=0x350" or whatever your io address.
> Then it found it fine. The card I had to deal with was a dual bus chip.
> There were two logical cards on the same chip. The only change was that I
> said "linux ncr53c8xx=0x350 ncr53c8xx=0x380" at the boot prompt. It will
> ask the card for an irq and everything.
>


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