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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NCR 53c825 support?
Date: 13 Oct 1995 03:29:13 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: James Antoniou's message of Thu, 12 Oct 1995 19:02:51 -0700
In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.951012190016.25749A-100000@step.mother.com> James Antoniou <boethius@step.mother.com> writes:
On Fri, 13 Oct 1995, Andrew Wheadon wrote:
> In article <45hpvq$cqk@pa.mother.com> you write:
> >Hi... I have an NCR 53c825 PCI SCSI host adapter that I have been trying
> >to get to work with FreeBSD. I have 4 SCSI hard drives. 3 are internal
> >and 1 is external. The drive at the end of the SCSI chain (terminated)
> >comes up. The big fast/wide Quantum I just got is not recognized nor is
> >the drive that sits between the terminated fast SCSI-2 drive and the ex-
> >ternal drive. When I unplug the external drive, only the terminated drive
> >comes up.
> >And ideas?
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding it or maybe I shouldn't be pointing
> out obvious things which you would have thought of, but
> you can't mix wide with non-wide drives on the same bus.
Really? Well, that would be strange considering...
OS/2, DOS/Windows, Windows95, and Linux all boot and recognize both the
fast and fast/wide drives. The PCI HA has both 50- and 68-pin connectors
on the card so it's obviously equipped to handle both busses.
Also, the newer BusLogic wide cards also claim to be able to run both
wide and non-wide drives off the same card. I don't have one, so I
can say exactly how it works...
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532
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