From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 1 17:02:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA18936 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 17:02:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA18930 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 17:02:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA02587; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 11:33:25 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601020103.LAA02587@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Recommendations for SCSI card? To: handy@condor.physics.montana.edu (Brian Handy) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 11:33:25 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Handy" at Dec 29, 95 10:55:24 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Brian Handy stands accused of saying: > These part numbers are lost on me. I've been trying to get an ASUS MB > *and* get the NCR on-board SCSI. I've heard arguments about how the BIOS > won't deal with it and I'll have to boot off a floppy, and (sigh) I even > had a dealer tell me I couldn't do it. Complete crap. All the ASUS motherboards have NCR support in their BIOS. > Now, I wanted 512KB cache w/ Pipeline burst. I don't know if that's > somehow the cause of my problems. No. > To wrap things up...can someone explain to me where I'm completely off in > left field? basically, how do I solve this problem and get a nice MB with > the cheap SCSI interface? If the motherboard has an onboard NCR controller, it will have support for it in the BIOS. _ALL_ ASUS motherboard support the NCR chips either onboard or on the SC200 cards. Many other motherboards have NCR support; Soyo is one other manufacturer that does PBurst motherboards that have NCR support. > Brian -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[