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From: "Steven A. DuChene" <sad@sduchene.mindspring.com>
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI PCI host adapter
Date: 23 Aug 1995 04:22:08 GMT
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
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taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) wrote:
> NCR53c810 SCSI-2 controllers are advertised at $80 each, if you
>have a motherboard that supports them (I believe all the recent ASUS
>PCI boards do). Very fast, very reliable controllers. I've got four
>of them here (not all in one machine, unfortunately ;-)).
Actually if you are only going to use the SCSI devices in Linux and don't plan
on booting from them Linux can see the card and any devices hung off of it
without the NCR BIOS in the motherboard. This is how I am using the a 53c810
$79 card in my system.
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