From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 28 09:03:05 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA17245 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 09:03:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from vespucci.iquest.com (vespucci.iquest.com [199.170.120.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA17239 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 09:03:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from [204.177.193.231] (n4hhe.ampr.org [204.177.193.231]) by vespucci.iquest.com (8.6.9/8.6.9 Secure) with SMTP id LAA05531; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 11:03:32 -0600 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 11:02:54 -0600 To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org From: dkelly@iquest.com (David Kelly) Subject: Re: Recommendations for SCSI card? Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Michael Smith said about NCR BIOS: > >Funny, we only have one of them in an ASUS board; the rest are in a >variety of J-random Triton PCI motherboards, mostly Soyo and Expert (the >Expert boards are crap, but they're relatively cheap). > >All of these have the NCR bios; in fact, I haven't met a PCI motherboard >on sale here yet that doesn't. YMMV. What does NCR (now Symbios) bios support *look* like? My Nexgen PCI-90 as AMI bios but nothing within its pretty graphic-windowed setup suggests support of an NCR/Symbios SCSI card. Recently checked a PCI/VL-bus 486 w/ AMI bios whose setup looked just like my Nexgen except for the addition of some kind of EPA crap. In another discussion elsewhere it was suggested that some NCR/Symbios-based cards come with a bios support module (on floppy) that can be combinded with your FLASH bios image and written into the motherboard FLASH bios. Also hear this often trashes your FLASH bios making the system totally unusable. As for myself, found a "used" 2940 with no documentation or software (but looked like it was new in the factory anti-static bag) for $125. -- David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@iquest.com ============================================================= To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas Edison