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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NCR810 SCSI help needed! Date: 8 Jan 1996 01:59:19 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4cptpn$sft@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4cnmn0$dk8@access4.digex.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 dcmyers@access4.digex.net (David Myers) writes: > Cute little NCR810-based PCI card bought from Technoland in Santa Clara, > California. "Made in Taiwan." The card has almost *nothing* on it -- the > '810 chip, a 40 MHz crystal, a couple of jumpers, that's it. Well, nice cards they are. :-) > The Symptoms: > > Remember, I still have to format the SCSI disk. You don't. This ain't a MFM or ESDI disk. SCSI disks are always formatted (low-level, that i mean). Normally, there's no need to run a new low-level format. Some drives (Quantum, for example) even refuse to low-level format itself. > I have no idea what to do next. Do any of you? My only goal is to get > FreeBSD running; I couldn't care less about this MS-DOS nonsense, and would > happily skip DOS-level formatting if it can somehow be avoided. Simply install FreeBSD. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)