From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Dec 20 18:35:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA01064 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 18:35:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA01053 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 18:35:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt2-74.HiWAAY.net [208.147.148.74]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA15881; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 20:35:18 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA14271; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 20:20:44 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199712210220.UAA14271@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: jack cc: Burton Sampley , hardware@freebsd.org From: David Kelly Subject: Re: NCR810 (or 875) & Asus P55T2P4 & Overclocking ? In-reply-to: Message from jack of "Sat, 20 Dec 1997 16:48:32 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 20:20:43 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have a Tyan MB that I couldn't get to recognize a Tyan SCSI card with > the 875 on it. Wasn't a FreeBSD thing, one and a half other operating > systems, OS/2 and Win95, couldn't see it either. It wasn't a bad card > since I packed it off to Jordan and its doing fine in one of freebsd.org's > boxes. ???????? > > I've been very happy with my 2940UW. Currently I have both, Asus SC875 and Adaptec 2940 in this system: ahc0 rev 0 int a irq 9 on pci0:9 ahc0: aic7870 Single Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs ncr0 rev 3 int a irq 11 on pci0:11 ncr0 waiting for scsi devices to settle The Adaptec is ancient. Came with BIOS 1.10. I downloaded and burned a new 1.16 for it but never noticed any differences. IMHO The One Big Advantage my Adaptec has over my '875 is the Adaptec BIOS has onboard low level format and bad block management/scanning. To do the same with the '875 one has to do DOS. Possibly there is a newer BIOS I can flash into my '875? Is there a package for FreeBSD to prep problem SCSI disks? A disk exerciser and bad-block reporter? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.