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Date:      Wed, 16 Oct 1996 19:52:21 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Cc:        darrylo@sr.hp.com, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ncr 825 clone hunt
Message-ID:  <199610161022.TAA03187@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199610160920.LAA03243@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> from "Stefan Esser" at Oct 16, 96 11:20:10 am

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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

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