Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 15:12:33 +0200 (MET DST) From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@axp5.physik.fu-berlin.de> To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: need some scsi help ... Message-ID: <199608141312.PAA01008@mordillo>
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hello
i'm currently looking for a (if possible cheap) pci scsi controller and have
some question about that topic:
* the best choice for price/performance seems to be an ncr controller (for
instance tzhe asus sc200 - but the question is - so i need the
ncr/symbios/sdms bios for it to work (i don't want to boot from that
controller) ? - i checked the bios in the board using
cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i ncr | more
cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i sym | more
and did'nt find anything which looked like the ncr bios (i found for instance
all the strings of the award bios in there) - can please someone with the ncr
bios in his mainboard bios if it is possible to find some ncr strings from the
ncr bios in it using this method ? - i ask for the need of the ncr bios for
the operation of the ncr driver because i read something in the linux scsi
howto about the ncr bios being required for opreation because the ncr bios
sets some registers which are required for the driver - and i think the linux
ncr driver is the FreeBSD driver ported to linux - so this should also apply
to FreeBSD
* so thus the next question: if a non bios ncr controller won't work (and i
can't find an ncr controller with bios here in berlin (maybe someone has an
idea where to get such a thing here ...) - what else controller should i use ?
possible choices so far are the adaptec 2940 (a lot more expensive - but may
be ok - if the cheaper version of it - without any software or docs - is
enougth - the adaptec 2920 is a bit cheaper but is it supported ? - is seems
to be equivalent to the last future domain controller (which seems to have
been bought by adaptec ...) - will this one work ?
* what other controllers are recommended ?
* if i choose the adaptec 2940 - how good/stable is the driver in FreeBSD ?
* does someone in the area of berlin/germany a good place to bye - for
instance an ncr controller with bios ?
a lot of thanks in advance
t
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thomas graichen graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de graichen@FreeBSD.org
perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when
there is no longer anything to take away antoine de saint-exupery
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