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From: Ronald Wahl <rwa@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI PCI host adapter
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 19:57:03 +0200
Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG
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On 26 Aug 1995, Larry Snyder wrote:

> In article <41n8oa$nld@gate.sinica.edu.tw>,
> Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
> >In article <41eadg$1ajc@news.mindspring.com>, Steven A. DuChene <sad@sduchene.mindspring.com> wrote:
> >>
> >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).
> 
> But what if I want to boot of the SCSI drive connected to my NCR
> host adapter?  My motherboard is an Opti PCI/VLB 100 Mhz.

You need an SDMS SCSI BIOS, either on your SCSI controller or in your 
system BIOS. Also you have to disable your IDE-Controller.

Ronald.

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