From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 2 11:39:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23038 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 11:39:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA23032 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 11:39:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA11347; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 11:39:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 11:39:13 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: David Kelly cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Asus P2L97 motherboard In-Reply-To: <199801312353.RAA21911@nospam.hiwaay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, David Kelly wrote: > > > According to the web page, it is Adaptec 7880 Ultra SCSI based, not NCR. > > > > Asus must have changed their mind then -- they were (are) selling NCR > > controllers with older boards. > > I've never heard of modern NCR/Symbios chips on the MB from anyone but > Apple, but that doesn't mean anthing other than I've only seen Adaptec > on the specs for PC MB's. > > As cheap as the NCR/Symbios PCI cards are, one would think the chips > are so cheap a MB designer couldn't resist. > > Asus is an excellent source of NCR/Symbios PCI SCSI cards. Maybe that's > what Doug was thinking of? I figured, scine they sell the SC-200, they'd bought into the NCR chips wholesale for the boards too. Guess I was wrong. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major