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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI PCI host adapter
Date: 3 Sep 1995 18:19:58 GMT
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larry@rn.com (Larry Snyder) wrote:
>Shouldn't I be able to just swap cards and run using the default
>kernel with either the NCR or the 2940?

Are you saying that you run both cards in your machine at the same time?
Some motherboards don't work very well with such combinations, and they're
just plain broken is the reason.  Try this with a new ASUS Triton chipset
MB and you may find that your mileage varies significantly.

If that's not the problem we're talking about here then I'd like
more details please.  Tnx.

-- 
						Jordan