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From: peter@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au (Peter Wemm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Buslogic VLB SCSI controller
Date: 3 Feb 1994 20:13:57 +0800
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hwr@pilhuhn.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) writes:

>bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) writes:

>>>Does Buslogic VLB SCSI controller work with *BSD in native (32-bit) mode?

>>Works fine with NetBSD 0.9 and the bt742a driver.

>And is blastingly fast with the IBM 662-S12 disk ...

And it doesn't work *at all* with the new Quantum hard drives
(specifically the LPS1080S).  The board locks up during the BIOS
device scan...  I have plenty of info on this if anybody is
interested...

Buslogic dont care....

-Peter

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