From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 18 14:52:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA20188 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 14:52:31 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA20180 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 14:52:26 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA14198; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 14:48:12 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199504182148.OAA14198@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Buslogic? To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 14:48:11 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, tom@haven.uniserve.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504182123.AA021800191@yarmouth.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Apr 18, 95 09:23:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1188 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >>>>> "Rodney" == Rodney W Grimes writes: > > Rodney> A ``good'' 486 PCI motherboard is the ASUS PCI/I-486SP3G, > Rodney> it has a built in NCR810 controller. > > Does anyone know why Paul Vixie (you listening, Paul?) can't recommend > the NCR-based SCSI controller? Becase he is selling to the BSD/OS user, and BSD/OS does not have support for the card. > > Better questions: what are the disadvantages of the NCR810? So far I have seen some compatibility problems between the sequencer code that we use in FreeBSD and some DAT and CDROM drives. Other than that problem it is the main controller I sell in my systems. I have CDROM drives and DAT drives that work just fine with it. I run Quantum/Micropolis and DEC disk drives with it and have had no problems in that area. I have yet to see a motherboard compatibility problem with it like I see with the BT946's. The performance seems as good as any other PCI SCSI controller with respect to both system loading and bandwidth. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD