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. -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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