From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 16 06:08:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA24229 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 06:08:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA24214 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 06:08:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilligan.eng.umd.edu (gilligan.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.21]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.0/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA19000; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:08:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by gilligan.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA22037; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:08:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: gilligan.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:08:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@gilligan.eng.umd.edu To: Stefan Esser cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ncr 825 clone hunt In-Reply-To: <199610160857.KAA03203@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Stefan Esser wrote: > Chuck Robey writes: > > Does anyone know a source of ncr 825 clones? I'm suddenly having troubles > > getting the one from Tyan, and I need a new scsi controller for my new smp > > system. Thanks! > > Get the Tekram DC390W (53c825A based) or go > for the Ultra-WIDE DC390F (53c875 based). > > They seem to cost some $100 for the WIDE and > $150 for the Ultra-WIDE card, and seem to be > very high quality, including a BIOS setup as > known from Adaptec cards. The NCR driver will > soon know how to parse the card's NVRAM, and > this will make it possible to configure tags, > sync. rate and other options. Thanks, Stefan. I'll do just that. > > Regards, STefan > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------