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Date:      Fri, 02 Jun 1995 08:04:33 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com>
To:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (user alias)
Subject:   Re: quantum (DEC) grand prix (any objections?) 
Message-ID:  <199506021504.IAA09545@freefall.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Jun 95 16:58:47 %2B0200." <199506021458.QAA13314@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> 

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>> 
>> >I'm about to buy a Quantum Grand Prix (4GB) SCSI disk today.
>> >Keen as always I'm expecting there will be no trouble connecting
>> >it to a 1.1.5.1 (AH1542A) system, will there be?
>> >Any caveats wrt connecting it to ncr 53810 (Asus SP3G) under 2.0-current?
>> >
>> 
>> It will not work on the NCR. I have no idea about the 1542, since I haven't
>> tried it, but a 1742 in Wcarchive had trouble with them.  The drives work
>> fine on any of the aic7xxx based cards with 2.0.5A.
>
>
>> --nyone knowing the reasons why it does not work on the NCR? I mean
>the on board NCR of the ASUS SP3G PCI board.

Some incompatibility with the code the NCR runs (I don't know if its called
a sequencer program like it is for the Adaptec).  The aic7xxx driver had a
similar problem, but was fixed more than a month ago.

>I will dare and buy this drive and I shall see. If all fails
>I'll connect it to my 1542CF.
>
>> Justin T. Gibbs
>> ==============================================
>> TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1
>>   Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus
>> ==============================================
>> 
>
>--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
>FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.0-BUILT-19950531 FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-1995
>0531 #0: Wed May 31 06:16:35 MET DST 1995     root@blues.physik.rwth-aachen.d
>e:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS  i386

--
Justin T. Gibbs
==============================================
TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1
  Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus
==============================================



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