From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 31 22:33:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA29771 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 22:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA29742; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 22:33:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id PAA03730; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 15:02:16 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708010532.PAA03730@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: SCSI Card to use. In-Reply-To: from "Christopher R. Bowman" at "Aug 1, 97 01:23:34 am" To: crb@Glue.umd.edu (Christopher R. Bowman) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 15:02:16 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Christopher R. Bowman stands accused of saying: > > would have made this suggestion myself, however I don't believe that > the NCR driver is doing Ultra-Wide transactions yet is it? The probe of > my IBM Ultrastar 2ES Ultra-Wide drive (included below) indicates that > I am not getting these types of transfers with my 2.2.2 (from the CD) > system. Thus I didn't suggest 875 based cards since the request asked > for Ultrawide cards and though the my Tekram 390F is indeed an ultrawide > 875 based card which I am QUITE hapy with, it is not doing Ultrawide > transactions. > > Perhaps this is not the case with newer source(I don't know) but people > should be aware of this before purchase. Code for this was committed recently. Pester Stefan (se@freebsd.org) if it hasn't made it into 2.2-stable yet. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[