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From: se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Which motherboard to buy? Bogus PLATO BIOS and IRQ sharing
Date: 23 May 1995 12:44:50 GMT
Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany
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To: ericvb@Sun.COM (Eric van Bezooijen)
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In article <3prgk9$r7d@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>, ericvb@Sun.COM (Eric van Bezooijen) writes:
|> I have a 90 Mhz Pentium ASUS board with the Sis chipset and an NCR SC200
|> controller.  I can't get FreeBSD to install, because FreeBSD's ncr driver
|> doesn't like my hard drive (Quantum Grand Prix 4.3 Gb disk).  So, until
|> there is a fix for this, I suggest you do not use a Quantum Grand Prix
|> with your combination of hardware.

Yes, the Quantum grand Prix is in some way incompatible 
with the current FreeBSD NCR SCSI driver code ... :(
(Or, ahemm, the NCR driver is incompatible with the GP :)

But the Quantum Atlas works quite well, in fact ...

If you can help locate the incompatibility, then we'd be 
glad to make the driver work with the Grand Prix.

We just don't have such a drive here, and it may require
a significant number of reboots using patched kernels to
get this worked out ...


Regards, STefan
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