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Date:      Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:39:31 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick)
Cc:        dkelly@hiwaay.net, shocking@prth.pgs.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Narrow SCSI controllers, and using WIDE drives with them 
Message-ID:  <199804202339.SAA04391@nospam.hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick)  of "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 00:17:02 PDT." <199804200717.AAA02451@math.berkeley.edu> 

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Dan Strick writes:
> It ought to work by default.  If not, you may be able to tell the
> host adapter via its BIOS interface to only do narrow transfers
> with specific SCSI devices.

That's sorta hard to do with a narrow controller as all I've seen are 
not capable of wide negotiations therefore its not an option.

My 2940 (narrow with the 7860 chipset and BIOS 1.21) didn't like a wide 
drive that was attached.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
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