Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 08:52:02 -0600 (MDT) From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> To: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, current-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: ncr driver working well with 53c875? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970527084828.12487A-100000@alive.znep.com> In-Reply-To: <19970527130651.56313@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de>
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On Tue, 27 May 1997, Stefan Esser wrote: > On May 26, Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> wrote: > > I have run both a DC-390U (ultra) and a DC-390F (ultra wide) under FreeBSD > > without any real problems. The U isn't wide, but still uses the 875 > > chipset. > > > > Note that the Tekram's BIOS doesn't like disks partitioned using FreeBSD's > > dedicated mode and will hang on boot if it sees one. > > Well, it will write a nasty complaint, and will pause for > some 10 seconds, but will eventually continue the SCSI bus > scan ... Perhaps with newer BIOSes it is fixed. I get a nasty complaint if the geometry isn't what it thinks it should be and it then continues, but with the version I was using if I used the dedicated mode it just hangs.
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