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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.indiana.edu!news From: rodsmith@indiana.edu (Rod Smith) Newsgroups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ASUS SC200 SCSI controller ? Date: 9 Mar 1997 17:04:16 GMT Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5fuqig$80q@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu> References: <5fpiic$hkq@chronicle.concentric.net> <33217e9c.1983111@news.hk.linkage.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: xyplex4-1-4.ucs.indiana.edu X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 In-Reply-To: <33217e9c.1983111@news.hk.linkage.net> To: wanjohn@averydennison.com (John Wan) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus:36210 comp.periphs.scsi:72622 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36801 In article <33217e9c.1983111@news.hk.linkage.net>, wanjohn@averydennison.com (John Wan) writes: >On Fri, 07 Mar 97 18:13:32 GMT, dantso@cris.com (Daniel Ts'o) wrote: > >> Can it be used in any PCI system or only ASUS ? I understand there is >>a BIOS issue. > >As well explained by previous mail, you can simply find a Award bios >mother board will support it. This isn't correct. The NCR SDMS support that's required by NCR/Symbios 53c810-based host adapters is **NOT** part of the Award BIOS. It's a separate entity that happens to be included with assorted motherboards, and happens to be distributed in the same file as those motherboards' flash BIOS images. It is licensed for use by the motherboard manufacturer, *NOT* by Award. Many motherboards with Award BIOSes do include this support, but then, so do many motherboards with BIOSes from AMI, Phoenix, or others. You've got to check on this issue specifically for each motherboard, no matter what the main BIOS it uses. -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Rod Smith Author of: | | rodsmith@indiana.edu "Should I Buy OS/2" FAQ | | http://ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~rodsmith "OS/2 Soundcard Summary" | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+