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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Howard Lew <hlew@sequence.Stanford.EDU>
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Subject: Re: NCR SCSI controller
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On Sun, 15 Dec 1996, Howard Lew wrote:

> Can anyone give me so info about NCR based SCSI controllers?  Is it just 
> the chip?   Which ones work with FreeBSD?  And where can I get one?

The NCR (now Symbios) SCSI controllers are great performers at a great
price.  I have a 815 with two 4x SCSI CDs working off of it and not a
problem.  Of course, these are complete cards, not just the chip.  NCR
themselves make some 'sample' boards, and I believe TEKRAM and ASUS have
units.  

My card, the 815, has an on-board Flash BIOS that probes the disks on
startup and if I had hard disks attached, would make those available for
booting.    

The 810, 815 and I assume the 825 should work with 2.1.6 and 2.2.  Support
was just committed for the 875 (AMD & Tekram wide units) in -current.

I purchased mine from Insight Electronics; information is available from
Symbios's web page at the standard:  www.symbios.com.  Mine was about $120
including shipping.  Drivers for many platforms & manuals are included.
Updated drivers available via ftp.symbios.com for your other platforms.

Hope this helps.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major