From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 18 16:01:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA24579 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:01:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA24573 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:01:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA29427; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:02:57 -0800 Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:02:55 -0800 (PST) From: Veggy Vinny To: Edward Ing cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ASUS SC200/NEC53C810 PCI SCSI adapter compatibility? In-Reply-To: <3290A6D5.82E@utoronto.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Edward Ing wrote: > I am considering purchasing the ASUS SC200 PCI SCSI adapter. > This card is not listed in the Release notes. However > it is driven by the NEC53c810 chip and the NEC53c810 card, not > the chip, is listed as a compatible device. > > What are my chances that the ASUS SC200 will work (it cost > considerably less that other cards? This one is guaranteed to work as long as your motherboard has the NCR SCSI bios which is on most if not all Award based BIOSes. > Has anyone had success with this SCSI Adapter, linking both a hard drive > and cdrom > using FreeBSD? Yes, I have and this is the NCR 810 card that people are using. > It is suppose to be SCSI-2 fast, compatible? yes it is. > Any comments will be appreciated. Vince GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking Operations - GUS Mailing Lists Admin