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From: James Antoniou <boethius@step.mother.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NCR 53c825 support?
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 19:02:51 -0700
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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.  

FYI