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From: curt@portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: won't work w/ NCR SCSI
Date: 18 Oct 1995 11:49:51 -0700
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In article <461uig$aa0_001@martis-d220.sierra.net>,
Jim Howard <jiho@sierra.net> wrote:
>Neither NetBSD nor FreeBSD will work with the following hardware:
>
>   ASUS PCI/I-486SP3G motherboard
>   on-board NCR 53C810 PCI SCSI chip with:
>      ID 0:  Micropolis MC4110 Fast SCSI-2 hard drive
>      ID 1:  TEAC CD-50 SCSI-2 CD-ROM drive

I'm using an ASUS PVI-486SP3 (a very similar motherboard, but with
the SCSI chip on a PCI card) and the NCR controller works for
me--more or less. It's not entirely stable.

You need to make sure you're using the newest drivers for the NCR
chip.  The one shipped with NetBSD 1.0 was quite unstable with more
than one drive in my machine.

The latest version I'm aware of is 1.49. I've got a back-port of
that to NetBSD 1.0; contact me via e-mail if you want a copy.

I get about 3MB/sec raw transfer rate on a Quantum Lightening.

cjs
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