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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI PCI host adapter
Date: 26 Aug 1995 13:48:58 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <41eadg$1ajc@news.mindspring.com>, Steven A. DuChene <sad@sduchene.mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
Oh, in that case, sure. I didn't want to mislead the original
poster since in the majority of cases one would indeed be booting of a
SCSI device. If you have a cheap IDE drive as your boot disk, then
the NCR will work in practically any PCI motherboard (this applies to
FreeBSD and any OS that supplies its own BIOS-independent hardware
driver).
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org