[ale] NCR Lunux 2.0.11

[eric at compgen.com (Eric)]

Could be synchronous transfer negotiations in the driver. Look in the
source code for the different cmd line options and compilation time
options you can pass to the kernel: /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/NCR* &
README.*NCR*

Could be that you need to not reset the SCSI bus.

Could be bad termination on the SCSI bus.

Could be a bad PCI config (configuration for that PCI INT confilicts
with an IDE IRQ for another card in your system.)

Could be a bad PCI bios.   I've had a hard time getting an award bios to
configure an NCR 53c810 correctly.  But the symptom I saw was that the
initialization of the card bailed out pretty quick, reporting 'irq 0
invalid' or 'irq 255'


-Eric.

David Hamm writes:
 > I have an NCR scsi card in my Linux box and I'm trying to get 2.0.11 to boot, it always hangs on 
 > the scsi probe.  I thought 2.0 supported the NCR better than any other kernel.  Does anybody 
 > know what the solution might be?
 > 
 > David