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Date:      Tue, 2 Jan 1996 11:33:25 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        handy@condor.physics.montana.edu (Brian Handy)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Recommendations for SCSI card?
Message-ID:  <199601020103.LAA02587@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951229104438.10593H-100000@condor.physics.montana.edu> from "Brian Handy" at Dec 29, 95 10:55:24 am

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Brian Handy stands accused of saying:
> These part numbers are lost on me.  I've been trying to get an ASUS MB 
> *and* get the NCR on-board SCSI.  I've heard arguments about how the BIOS 
> won't deal with it and I'll have to boot off a floppy, and (sigh) I even 
> had a dealer tell me I couldn't do it.

Complete crap.  All the ASUS motherboards have NCR support in their
BIOS.

> Now, I wanted 512KB cache w/ Pipeline burst.  I don't know if that's 
> somehow the cause of my problems.

No.

> To wrap things up...can someone explain to me where I'm completely off in
> left field?  basically, how do I solve this problem and get a nice MB with
> the cheap SCSI interface? 

If the motherboard has an onboard NCR controller, it will have support
for it in the BIOS.  _ALL_ ASUS motherboard support the NCR chips either
onboard or on the SC200 cards.  Many other motherboards have NCR support;
Soyo is one other manufacturer that does PBurst motherboards that have
NCR support.

> Brian

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