Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Jul 1998 18:24:24 -0700 (PDT) | From | Xintian Wu <> | Subject | Re: NCR53C8XX Problem on Compaq Proliant 7000 (long) |
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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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