Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 19:32:20 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ASUS SC-200 or SC-875 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970218192853.23132Q-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970218165958.00a9e210@sentex.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Mike Tancsa wrote: > Hello, > In our news machine we currently have 6 drives and one 2940 controller... > I was thinking of adding another PCI scsi controller to speed it up a bit > and allow us to add more drives.... Since I already have a controller I > can boot from, would this matter with the SC-200 that I cant boot from it? > ? Or should I pay a little extra for the Ultra version (875)? We dont > have any ultra drives just yet... Would it matter for now in terms of > performance? Also, how are the drivers for the NCR based SCSI controllers > ? Are they as stable as the Adaptec ones ? > Not sure if this answers your question, but I currently have two NCR53C810 (one SC-200, one I'm not sure) controllers in my news server and, pleasantly, when I added the second card in, the machine just booted without any problems. I think I just got lucky in that my boot drive happened to be on the right card, in the right slot. As far as I know (and I imagine there is a proper way of doing this), if you put two cards in the machine and it doesn't boot, try swapping the cards so that they probe in the proper order. In my case, I got lucky in that it was as pure a PnP as I've ever seen...YMMV
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.95.970218192853.23132Q-100000>