From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed May 20 17:17:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA01343 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 17:17:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mauswerks.net (root@ns.mauswerks.com [204.152.96.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA01319 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 17:16:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from feral.com (mjacob@[209.54.254.2]) by ns.mauswerks.net (8.8.0/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA06255; Wed, 20 May 1998 17:18:37 -0700 Received: (from mjacob@localhost) by feral.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id RAA32102; Wed, 20 May 1998 17:16:24 -0700 Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 17:16:24 -0700 From: Matthew Jacob Message-Id: <199805210016.RAA32102@feral.com> To: mike@smith.net.au, mjacob@feral.com Subject: Re: SCSI Differential cards Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, richard@pegasus.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >> Also, the NCR based >> adapters often get hysterical if you don't have a disk you're >> going to boot from them on that channel. > >Er, they do? Are you referring to the particular adapter from CSC, or >just NCR adapters in general? I can't say in all the time I've been >using them that I've ever encountered this... > It's a function of SDMS (NCR/Symbios) BIOS- which they may have fixed in recent times- I haven't really checked the differential NCR adapter I bought from CSC last year for that problem since I was plugging it into an Alpha and an AIX box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message