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From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NCR or Symbios SCSI Controller
Date: 23 Dec 1996 18:06:44 GMT
Organization: Symantec Corp.
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In <E2q37p.L4L@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:

>part of the motherboard BIOS (which is why they only work with
>suitable motherboards).  This makes no difference to performance,

Strictly speaking, this is not correct.  While motherboards may not have BIOS
support for the NCR card, it will still work in the machine, provided that a
different boot device is configured.  For example, a small root partition on a
IDE disk, and multiple SCSI drives on an NCR card would work fine.