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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Wannabe NetBSD user
Date: 20 Jun 94 18:27:53 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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References: <CrI5By.7AJ@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1994Jun19.042728.16327@news.csuohio.edu> <CrpEnw.EE1@serval.net.wsu.edu>
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In <CrpEnw.EE1@serval.net.wsu.edu> hakimian@haney.eecs.wsu.edu (Karl Hakimian - staff) writes:
>In article <1994Jun19.042728.16327@news.csuohio.edu>,
>> The IDE controller should work just fine but the SCSI controller
>>is unsuported and likely to stay that way. See if you can trade it for
>>a Bustek one.
>Which Bustek? Is it PCI? What details can you give me about the Bustek
>controller (scsi II?, fast?, wide?)
It's *BusLogic*, not Bustek -- the name was changed some time ago.
You want the BusLogic bt946c for a PCI bus. BusLogic makes a *lot* of
controllers for all different bus designs (even MCA ;-). The bt946c
is a SCSI-2 FAST controller. It is not WIDE. I don't believe the
wide controller is out for the PCI bus yet, the only wide controller
from them that I know of being the bt757s for the EISA bus. But I
don't know of that many SCSI-2 devices that do wide anyway, except for
the really expensive stuff. (This last statement, of course, is going
to spawn a whole thread of wide devices just to prove me wrong, I'm
sure. :-p )
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
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