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Date:      Tue, 27 May 1997 08:52:02 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To:        Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, current-users@netbsd.org
Subject:   Re: ncr driver working well with 53c875?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970527084828.12487A-100000@alive.znep.com>
In-Reply-To: <19970527130651.56313@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de>

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On Tue, 27 May 1997, Stefan Esser wrote:

> On May 26, Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> wrote:
> > I have run both a DC-390U (ultra) and a DC-390F (ultra wide) under FreeBSD
> > without any real problems.  The U isn't wide, but still uses the 875
> > chipset. 
> > 
> > Note that the Tekram's BIOS doesn't like disks partitioned using FreeBSD's
> > dedicated mode and will hang on boot if it sees one.  
> 
> Well, it will write a nasty complaint, and will pause for
> some 10 seconds, but will eventually continue the SCSI bus
> scan ...

Perhaps with newer BIOSes it is fixed.  I get a nasty complaint if the
geometry isn't what it thinks it should be and it then continues, but with
the version I was using if I used the dedicated mode it just hangs.






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