From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 22 21:41:40 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA13334 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 21:41:40 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA13328 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 21:41:37 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA03062; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 21:38:54 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199504230438.VAA03062@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Best SCSI Controller To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 21:38:53 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504230200.TAA09881@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Charles Henrich" at Apr 22, 95 10:00:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1127 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hey Guys, whats the best SCSI (best meaning most reliable first, then fastest) > controller for FreeBSD? It seems BusLogic support has been around a long > time, so I'm looking at the 946c as a good choice, comments? (What do you run > Jordan?) Right now I would say it is a toss up between the bt946C and the NCR 53C810 based controller. The BT946C has some motherboard compatibility problems that I have seen and heard of, and the NCR 53C810 has some device compatibility problems caused by the ncr.c sequencer code. Personally I have converted everything here to the NCR card, and keep at BT946C around for testing purposes only. Make sure your motherboard has the NCR SCSI BIOS in it, or get the NCR card with the BIOS on it if not. I have 3 PROM sets for the BT946 and a forth set on the way, I can now make the board work with all but one of my motherboards by changing the PROM, not a pretty thing for the end user, but a workable solution for me :-(. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD