From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 7 12:58:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA27847 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:58:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.tar.com (ns.tar.com [204.95.187.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA27833; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:58:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppro.tar.com (ppro.tar.com [204.95.187.9]) by ns.tar.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA05616; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 14:58:05 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199708071958.OAA05616@ns.tar.com> From: "Richard Seaman, Jr." To: "Stefan Esser" Cc: "hardware@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Thu, 07 Aug 97 14:58:04 -0500 Reply-To: "Richard Seaman, Jr." Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 1.92 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: TekRam DC-390 SCSI controllers - any ideas what chipset? Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 7 Aug 1997 21:31:35 +0200, Stefan Esser wrote: >On Aug 6, "Christopher R. Bowman" wrote: >> My Tekram DC-390F uses the NCR/Symbios 53c875 chip. It provides an >> internal 50 pin narrow bus, an internal 68 pin ultra-wide pus, and an >> external 68 pin ultra-wide bus. As I undertand it any 2 of the three >> busses may have drives attached. Mine has worked fine for me, however I >> haven't been able to verify ultra-wide operation under 2.2.2 (from CD) >> since kernels built from CD source don't seem to support the 40 Mbyte/sec >> rate (20 Mbyte/sec does work) I am told however that the latest 2.2.2 cvs >> branch (is that STABLE or RELEASE?) and the current branch both do >> ultra-wide transfers. > >No, only current does, right now. I can provide anybody >who can't way for Ultra-SCSI support to be merged into >the -stable branch with a patch file, that brings the Do you mean "Ultra-SCSI" or "ultra-wide-SCSI"? C. Bowman indicates ultra-wide, and you seem to support that but then refer to only "ultra".