From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 2 08:04:40 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA09565 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 08:04:40 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA09545 ; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 08:04:34 -0700 Message-Id: <199506021504.IAA09545@freefall.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Christoph Kukulies cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (user alias) Subject: Re: quantum (DEC) grand prix (any objections?) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 02 Jun 95 16:58:47 +0200." <199506021458.QAA13314@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 1995 08:04:33 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> >> >I'm about to buy a Quantum Grand Prix (4GB) SCSI disk today. >> >Keen as always I'm expecting there will be no trouble connecting >> >it to a 1.1.5.1 (AH1542A) system, will there be? >> >Any caveats wrt connecting it to ncr 53810 (Asus SP3G) under 2.0-current? >> > >> >> It will not work on the NCR. I have no idea about the 1542, since I haven't >> tried it, but a 1742 in Wcarchive had trouble with them. The drives work >> fine on any of the aic7xxx based cards with 2.0.5A. > > >> --nyone knowing the reasons why it does not work on the NCR? I mean >the on board NCR of the ASUS SP3G PCI board. Some incompatibility with the code the NCR runs (I don't know if its called a sequencer program like it is for the Adaptec). The aic7xxx driver had a similar problem, but was fixed more than a month ago. >I will dare and buy this drive and I shall see. If all fails >I'll connect it to my 1542CF. > >> Justin T. Gibbs >> ============================================== >> TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 >> Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus >> ============================================== >> > >--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de >FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.0-BUILT-19950531 FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-1995 >0531 #0: Wed May 31 06:16:35 MET DST 1995 root@blues.physik.rwth-aachen.d >e:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS i386 -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================