Robert Liesenfeld wrote: > > On the advice of a couple of responses from my earlier post, I tried > installing on an external drive with another mac, and booted with a > kernel I picked up from ftp.emji.net. Now, on boot, I'm getting this > SCSI error, in an endless loop: > > ncr53c825a-0: Downloading SCSI scripts. > ncr53c825a-0:0: ERROR: (0:4) (0-0-0) (0/3) @ script (38:86830000) > ncr53c825a-0: script cmd = c1000004 > ncr53c825a-0: regdump: da 00 80 03 47 00 00 0e 71 00 06 00 80 00 00 0a. > ncr53c825a-0: have to clear fifos. > ncr53c825a-0: unexpected disconnect > ncr53c825a-0: restart (SCSI reset). > > ...repeat ad infinitum. I have no drives connected to the internal > DAC960 RAID card, and just one 4gb seagate connected via the external > interface. > > Ideas?
What kernel version? Seems that post 2.2.9 has broken ncr53c8xx on all architectures. I went to 2.2.13 on my x86 with a Tekram DC390F (NCR53c875) and it did the precise same thing. -prj