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Oooh... I don't think the SRM groks IDE at all....


On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote:

> 
> 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
> 


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