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From: rommel@ars.muc.de (Kai Uwe Rommel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: PCI bus cards (graphics and SCSI) which work?
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Message-ID: <2d97f3e5.415253@ars.muc.de>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 10:24:53 +0100
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rommel@ars.muc.de (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes in article <2d95d09f.415253@ars.muc.de>:
>>I'm also interested in some NS-PCI-Support information...
>>i plan to buy a PCI board with build in SCSI(NCR) and i'm
>>wondering if there's already driver support or something in
>>the pipeline.
>
>SCSI (NCR) support is there, although it has a few shortcomings still.
>Besides offering great performance, their driver currently can't
>address memory >16MB, due to a bug. A new driver is said to be
>released (according to NCR support people) during the end of April
>which will solve that problem. Another known problem is that current
>versions of the NCR SCSI BIOS (SDMS) can't correctly handle disks
>larger than 1 GB. Again, according NCR support people and verified by
>a board maker who uses it, a new version of it is currently in test at
>the board maker's and will soon solve this problem. Besides these two
>problems, the NCR SCSI chip on PCI boards seems to be very fast and
>also quite stable.

Sorry that my posting was misleading. I did not check the newsgroups
line. Since the original article was primarily posted to
comp.os.os2.misc, I read it there and followed up to it without
checking. The information I posted is only relevant for IBM OS/2 and
it's users.

Kai Uwe Rommel

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