Hello I have a problem with my ncr53c810 card (Asus SC200) and a SMC Elite 16 T network card (WD 8013). My machine runs under Debian Linux 2.2 and it uses the ncr53c8xx driver which is compiled into the kernel. When the NCR-bios of the motherboard is turned on the NIC is not working although the wd.o module is loaded correctly and the eth0 interface is up. When I turn the SDMS-bios support off everything works fine. At the moment I'm booting from floppy and I can mount the SCSI partitions but I can't boot from SCSI. So how to solve the SDMS-bios problem? Is it possible that the bios is interfering with the memory of my NICs?
My NICs are on: eth0: irq=10, io=0x300, mem=0xCC000 eth1: irq=3, io=0x280, mem=0xD0000 My ncr53c810 is on irq=11, io=0xe400 My machine: Debian 2.2 kernel 2.2.17, vanilla kernel, ncr53c8xx driver compiled into kernel. To make SMC nic running according to ethernet HOWTO using kernel parameter 'reserve=0x300,32,0x200,32 ether=10,0x300,eth0' Asus P/I-TP55N motherboard, Asus SC200 SCSI adapter, 32 MB RAM, Pentium 133, 2 SMC Elite 16T network cards. Kernelmessages concerning SCSI: sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 12, function 0 sym53c8xx: not initializing, device not supported ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 12, function 0 ncr53c8xx: PCI_LATENCY_TIMER=0, bursting should'nt be allowed. ncr53c8xx: 53c810 detected ncr53c810-0: rev=0x01, base=0xdf800000, io_port=0xe400, irq=11 ncr53c810-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking ncr53c810-0: restart (scsi reset).scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - version 3.2a-2 scsi : 1 host. Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-34330 Rev: S60B Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: E.08 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Vendor: JVC Model: XR-W2010 Rev: 1.51 Type: WORM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 ncr53c810-0-<0,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 4 scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total. ncr53c810-0-<6,*>: device did not report SYNC. Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 ncr53c810-0-<0,*>: FAST-5 SCSI 5.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 8) SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8467200 [4134 MB] [4.1 GB] ncr53c810-0-<2,*>: device did not report SYNC. Thank you in advance. regards -Olaf
