From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 16 03:24:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA06992 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 03:24:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA06983 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 03:24:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA03187; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 19:52:22 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199610161022.TAA03187@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: ncr 825 clone hunt To: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 19:52:21 +0930 (CST) Cc: darrylo@sr.hp.com, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199610160920.LAA03243@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> from "Stefan Esser" at Oct 16, 96 11:20:10 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Stefan Esser stands accused of saying: > > 2) Tekram offers (BSD copyrighted!) driver sources for their cards, > including the AMD 53c974 based ones. See their Web page (sorry, > don't remember the URL, but there was an announcement in a FreeBSD > list, a few weeks ago). But those AMD chips are far less capable > than the NCR chips! Would it be good to import the 53c974 driver? Does anyone have one of these to test with? > If you are looking for a good NCR based card, then the Tekram DC390U > (with an Ultra-20 8 bit SCSI bus) and the DC390F (Ultra-WIDE), both > based on the 53c875, are definitely a good choice. As an aside, does anyone have an Australian distributor for these? > Regards, STefan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[