From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 28 17:51:44 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA14696 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 17:51:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA14673 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 17:51:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA04693; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 12:29:17 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512290159.MAA04693@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Recommendations for SCSI card? To: dkelly@iquest.com (David Kelly) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 12:29:17 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au In-Reply-To: from "David Kelly" at Dec 28, 95 11:02:54 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk David Kelly stands accused of saying: > >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. Plug in an NCR card and try it; it doesn't "look" like anything unless the PCI BIOS probes find a card; then you get a signon and a SCSI probe. If you're a little patient, dig out a tool like DOS debug and cruise through the BIOS segment (0xf000:0 - 0xffff:f) and look for "SDMS" in a text message. > motherboard FLASH bios. Also hear this often trashes your FLASH bios making > the system totally unusable. Trying to follow the vendor's instructions for flashing your BIOS usually renders it unusable anyway. I prefer to copy them with a 'real' programmer, but not everyone has that luxury 8( > David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@iquest.com -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[