From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Jan 25 10:33:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA11814 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 10:33:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from persprog.com (persprog.com [204.215.255.203]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA11804 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 10:33:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by persprog.com (8.7.5/4.10) id NAA15643; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 13:29:45 -0500 Message-Id: <199701251829.NAA15643@persprog.com> Received: from dasa(192.2.2.199) by cerberus.ppi.com via smap (V1.3) id sma015641; Sat Jan 25 13:29:32 1997 Received: from DASA/SpoolDir by dasa.ppi.com (Mercury 1.21); 25 Jan 97 13:29:35 +0500 Received: from SpoolDir by DASA (Mercury 1.30); 25 Jan 97 13:29:06 +0500 From: "David Alderman" Organization: Personalized Programming, Inc To: hardware@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 13:28:57 +0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Symbios (NCR) '875 SCSI card question... Priority: normal In-reply-to: <3.0.32.19970125092841.006a1e94@pop.dial.pipex.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.50) Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 25 Jan 97 at 9:29, Simon Reading proclaimed: > A friend of mine had a dell PC come with an NCR scsi card (can't remember > which one). He needed to connect to external and internal harddrives. He > was using DOS and Windows (fear and loathing) and he got intermittent read > and write errors with both drives connected. With either disconnected it > was fine. Both devices were properly terminated. Then in the dell manual > in the small print it said 'you cannot connect internal and external drives > at the same time'. Incredible?! > He got around this problem by installing an additional scsi card. Fortunately, most Symbios Logic chip based cards do not have this problem. I wonder who made the card for the Dell? Sounds like one to avoid, in any event. ====================================== When philosophy conflicts with reality, choose fantasy. Dave Alderman -- dave@persprog.com ======================================