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From: meyera@iris.ucdavis.edu (Alan T. Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Future Domain TMC 885 SCSI Controller
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Date: 5 May 91 09:26:50 GMT
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Hello,
	I asked earlier if anyone knew about the time it takes to boot a computer
with the future domain scsi controller.  Thanks to all that replied.  I'd like
to show what I found.
	The controller waits to look for all of your devices, about 10 secs.
However, it wouldn't need to if you could tell it yourself what you have
attached to the controller.  So, removing the bios on the card will disable it
from searching for the scsi devices.  The problem then is that your scsi deviceswill not be reckgonized.  However, the problem can be solved by writing a sys
driver which performs the same actions which the bios on the controller normallydoes.

So, what I am wondering now is if the controller bios changes only interrupt 13.If so, I can capture the int 13 routine setup by the controller bios and 
install it myself evertime I boot.(I think)

I am not a good programmer by any means, so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance...

alan meyer
meyera@iris.ucdavis.edu