On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Rene Hexel wrote:

>   The DTC436E is a NEC 53C80 clone that can be found with SCSI cards
> that come with some scanners like the UMAX Astra 1200S.  There is

Yep, the friend who gave it to me got it with a scanner.

> currently no native support for this device in NetBSD 1.3.X.  However,
> in PR 6274 you should find a device driver patch for NetBSD 1.3.2 that
> gives you an "nca" device for 53C80 compatible devices (see
> http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=6274).  After
> applying the patch you have to add
> 
> options        NCR5380_USE_BUS_SPACE
> nca0 at isa? port 0x240 irq 5
> scsibus* at nca?
> 
>   to your kernel config file and recompile.

Thanks! I'll give it a try.

>   Unfortunately, so far I haven't been able to get it to work properly. 
> Here is what I get at boot time:
> 
> Oct 20 21:26:34 idle /netbsd: nca0: NCR 53C80 detected
> Oct 20 21:26:34 idle /netbsd: scsibus1 at nca0: 8 targets
> Oct 20 21:26:34 idle /netbsd: nca0: select found SCSI bus busy,
> resetting...
> Oct 20 21:26:34 idle last message repeated 41 times
> 
>   Any ideas anyone?

Hmmm. It might be time for me to gain SCSI clue. :-)

Take care,

Bill