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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.alpha.net!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news.cloud9.net!cloud9.net!tls From: tls@cloud9.net (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Commerical OS's (was Re: aha0: DMA beyond end of ISA) Date: 17 May 1995 07:34:32 GMT Organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, New York, USA Lines: 47 Message-ID: <3pc8u8$66g@news.cloud9.net> References: <MICHAELV.95May12222703@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <1995May16.114607.16086@zippy.dct.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: cloud9.net In article <1995May16.114607.16086@zippy.dct.ac.uk>, Angus Marshall <amm@tremas.dct.ac.uk> wrote: >michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: >> In article <3ophvm$9md@anshar.shadow.net> jc@anshar.shadow.net (Justin) writes: >> This point would be moot if NetBSD supported the PCI Adaptec SCSI >> adapter, so I wouldn't have to use the ISA adapter :) Any ideas on >> the ETA for the adapter support or the >16MB RAM ISA fix? >> NetBSD supports two excellent PCI SCSI adapters already. When Adaptec >> lets up on their Draconian policies, I'm sure someone will write one >> for that card too (that isn't GNU Copylefted). > >Oh yeah? Which ones? for the last 4 months I've been trying to get the NCR card >to coexist with ed0 and ed1. I can get the system to come up from the hard >drive successfully, but as soon as ed0 or ed1 is enabled with ifconfig >I get blasted by messages about "NIC memory corrupt: Packet length >zero" > >The hardware all works fine under MS-Dos and Windows so I'm forced to >think it's a software problem. > >> In the mean time, you can use the NCR 53c810 PCI SCSI cards, as well >> as the BusLogic bt946c, under NetBSD with excellent results. > >TX: Yes, these cards work, but NOT with ethernet - prove me >wrong.(please) Sure. I have more than five customer machines with '810/'825 SCSI and anywhere from one to three ethernet controllers each. One of them is an ASUS P55TP4 with two SMC 8216T cards using the 'ed' device driver. At home, I have an ASUS SP3G with a 3C509 and a NE2100 clone, with both the onboard '810 SCSI and a BT946C. >> Why this obsession with Adaptec anyway? >'cos they WORK! So do the NCR and BusLogic controllers. Perhaps you have other, broken hardware in the system in question. I am not happy with the performance I get from the NetBSD/FreeBSD ncr driver, however. I plan to switch the '825 system to a BT956C as soon as I can get my hands on one. The 53c8XX hardware has a reputation for good performance, so I'm pretty sure this is a driver issue. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@cloud9.net Somewhere they're meeting on a pinhead, calling you an angel.