From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Aug 20 14:04:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA04115 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 14:04:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from saguaro.flyingfox.com (saguaro.flyingfox.com [204.188.109.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA04109 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 14:04:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jas@localhost) by saguaro.flyingfox.com (8.6.12/8.6.10) id OAA07838 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 14:03:38 -0700 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 14:03:38 -0700 From: Jim Shankland Message-Id: <199608202103.OAA07838@saguaro.flyingfox.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: ASUS SC200 SCSI card? Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm building up a couple of systems around the Asus P55T2P4 mainboard and a P133 CPU. I had planned on adding the Asus SC200 SCSI card, which is built around the NCR53C810; but the local computer shop recommended against that, saying that the SC200 must use IRQ0, and that I will therefore have trouble if I try to run non-Microsoft operating systems. I'm afraid I don't know enough about the PCI bus architecture even to know if this is gibberish or not. (Hey, at least they know there *are* non-Microsoft OS's!) I've also seen references to the NCR SCSI BIOS, but I'm unclear on whether this is an extra-cost option or not. Can anyone help shed some light here? Jim Shankland Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc.