Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 15:13:35 -0500 (EST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Subject: Re: PC164LX Outcome Message-ID: <XFMail.981107151335.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9811071037520.7469-100000@feral-gw>
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Matthew Jacob, On 07-Nov-98 you wrote: > > > > > > You can expect that the NCR 53c810 and '875 should be supported; if > > > the > > > board has a BIOS just rip it out (eg. ASUS SC875, Diamond Fireport). > > > You'll also be OK with at least some boards with the Qlogic chips on > > > then, I expect the isp1010, 1020 and 1040 would be OK. > > > > > > The NCR's are definitely the easiest to get. > > > > So, no adaptec? No Buslogic? > > > > No. There was a rumor that newer SRMs would support adaptec, > but that hasn't happened. > > I've had some problems with a couple of NCR boards. I've had > the best success with the Qlogic cards. There is a clone > vendor for Qlogic (PTI) that has had some problems. And there > are some problems with a earlier Qlogic cards (1020A) and earlier > SRMs (I don't know the rev)- probably because they tried to > do Ultra and couldn't quite get it right. Your best bet for these > cases is to take the Qlogic card over to a PC and get into the > BIOS and disable sync mode for that target- and see if the SRM > is intelligent enough to follow. Thanx, for this weekend, I'll try IDE. Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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