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From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG])
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI diskIO
Date: 23 Aug 1995 21:29:10 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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In article <41g50d$9r@trauma.rn.com>, Larry Snyder <larry@trauma.rn.com> wrote:
> ...
>>I guess you mean 53c810 for 52c810. It is the most less expensive SCSI-2
>>controller and has the performance reach the SCSI-2 spec.
>>I got 6.6 MBps reading rate on a sigle Seagate Baracuda disk and
>>8.5 MBps reading rate on double Seagate Baracuda disks on the same controller.
>>It costs $55 now from ACME MICRO-SYSTEM Inc., and about $69 - $79 other places
>
>I've seen prices of $120 in the Computer Shopper..  Is there a national
>vendor (ie: Dirt Cheap Drives, or Treasure Chest, etc)?
>
>I've also seen mention of a ROM that is required for this to run on specific
>motherboards - which I'm not quite clear on..

Many people are worry about NCR ROM. NCR provide a ftp site from there you can
get NCR BIOS update package, if they are still there. Look at www.ncr.com.
Almost all new generations of the motherboards support NCR in the BIOS.
So, it should not be a problem.


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