SCSI with NCR53C810

SCSI with NCR53C810

[Zachary]

>From:	"Nigel Roles" <ngr@symbionics.co.uk>
>Organization:  Symbionics Communications
>To:	9fans@cse.psu.edu
>Date:	Fri, 8 Sep 1995 04:42:04 -0400
>Subject:       Re: SCSI with NCR53C810
>Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
>
>
> 
>> Does anyone have/has anyone written/where do I get a driver so that I can
>> install Plan9 on my
>> SCSI drive?  The controller is based on the NCR53C810 SCSI chip, and the
>> machine in
>> question has *no* IDE drives, nor ways for me add them since it's a notebook.
>> Is there any
>> way I can 'bootstrap' by putting DOS on the drive and then putting plan9 on
>> the drive
>> and letting it install itself over the DOS partition?  maybe with a RAMdisk?
>> I'd really
>> like to try this OS out...
>> 
>>  --Zachary
> 
>Executive summary - yes. I've got a version of the loader and kernel 
>which support the NCR series. I guess you want the 4 disk version, 
>because you ain't going to buy the CDROM first off. I need to know if 
>it's OK to make available an alternate 4 disk solution 'for free'. 
>Anyone at the Labs wish to comment?
>

I've seen no response to this, so I'm posting it here again for someone 
from Bell Labs to comment on and hopefully give Nigel the go ahead to 
make/give me the disks so I can try out this fine OS...

 --Zachary

SCSI with NCR53C810

[Frank]

Lambert Joshua B. (jlambert@uvarovite.ESd.ornl.GOV) wrote:
: I would also like to try out the disks referenced here since I have a NCR SCSI
: too.

: Josh

Same goes for me. Only NCR810, SCSI disk, adding an IDE disk would smash my
boot configuration, so I won't downgrade to IDE. But still I'd like to try
plan9.

Thanks,

Frank

SCSI with NCR53C810

[Lambert]

I would also like to try out the disks referenced here since I have a NCR SCSI
too.

Josh

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Joshua B. Lambert 
Research Associate
University of Tennessee

ORNL NASA EOS/EOSDIS DAAC Software Development/Analysis
P.O. Box 2008, MS 6407
Oak Ridge National Laboratory   
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6407

(615)241-5921 Phone             olz@ornl.gov - Primary E-Mail
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SCSI with NCR53C810

[Clint]

In article <9509080816.ZM9509@uvarovite.ESD.ORNL.Gov>,
Lambert Joshua B. <9fans@cse.psu.edu> wrote:
>I too have a  controller based on the NCR53C810 SCSI chip.
>The controller has no onboard BIOS, the BIOS is integrated into the main system
>BIOS.
>The board is a PCI board.
>
>I am planning an upgrade to an Adaptec board in about 3 months.

Please explain to me why Adaptec is an upgrade.  The testimony given
from Linux and FreeBSD users state they've had significantly better 
performance from their NCR53C810 than any 7870-based card, even on a bad day!
Not to mention that the 2940 card carries a fairly heavy pricetag...

If there is some new wonderful Adaptec PCI SCSI card, I'd like to hear
about it.

-Clint

SCSI with NCR53C810

[Lambert]

I too have a  controller based on the NCR53C810 SCSI chip.
The controller has no onboard BIOS, the BIOS is integrated into the main system
BIOS.
The board is a PCI board.

I am planning an upgrade to an Adaptec board in about 3 months.

I would be willing to modify a driver for operation with the NCR53C810 board,
however, I do not have the source for the bootstrap code. ( I am currently only
using the demo disks to evaluate plan9.)

I am willing to trade my time as a developer for the plan9 distribution.
Any takers AT&T?

There use to be a person at AT&T to contact about obtaining plan9 for
University work.

I am Research Assistant at the University of Tennessee and am currently
prototyping a massively distributed UNIX database application.  It is possible
that plan9 might work well for me.

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Joshua B. Lambert 
Research Associate
University of Tennessee

ORNL NASA EOS/EOSDIS DAAC Software Development/Analysis
P.O. Box 2008, MS 6407
Oak Ridge National Laboratory   
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6407

(615)241-5921 Phone             olz@ornl.gov - Primary E-Mail
(615)574-4665 Fax               jlambert@uvarovite.esd.ornl.gov - E-Mail
(615)564-8676 Pager             jlambert@utkux1.utk.edu - E-Mail
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SCSI with NCR53C810

[Nigel]

> 
> Does anyone have/has anyone written/where do I get a driver so that I can install Plan9 on my
> SCSI drive?  The controller is based on the NCR53C810 SCSI chip, and the machine in
> question has *no* IDE drives, nor ways for me add them since it's a notebook.  Is there any
> way I can 'bootstrap' by putting DOS on the drive and then putting plan9 on the drive
> and letting it install itself over the DOS partition?  maybe with a RAMdisk?  I'd really
> like to try this OS out...
> 
>  --Zachary
> 
Executive summary - yes. I've got a version of the loader and kernel 
which support the NCR series. I guess you want the 4 disk version, 
because you ain't going to buy the CDROM first off. I need to know if 
it's OK to make available an alternate 4 disk solution 'for free'. 
Anyone at the Labs wish to comment?



 

SCSI with NCR53C810

[Zachary]

Does anyone have/has anyone written/where do I get a driver so that I can install Plan9 on my
SCSI drive?  The controller is based on the NCR53C810 SCSI chip, and the machine in
question has *no* IDE drives, nor ways for me add them since it's a notebook.  Is there any
way I can 'bootstrap' by putting DOS on the drive and then putting plan9 on the drive
and letting it install itself over the DOS partition?  maybe with a RAMdisk?  I'd really
like to try this OS out...

 --Zachary