Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 13:28:57 +0500 From: "David Alderman" <dave@persprog.com> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Symbios (NCR) '875 SCSI card question... Message-ID: <199701251829.NAA15643@persprog.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970125092841.006a1e94@pop.dial.pipex.com>
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On 25 Jan 97 at 9:29, Simon Reading proclaimed: > A friend of mine had a dell PC come with an NCR scsi card (can't remember > which one). He needed to connect to external and internal harddrives. He > was using DOS and Windows (fear and loathing) and he got intermittent read > and write errors with both drives connected. With either disconnected it > was fine. Both devices were properly terminated. Then in the dell manual > in the small print it said 'you cannot connect internal and external drives > at the same time'. Incredible?! > He got around this problem by installing an additional scsi card. Fortunately, most Symbios Logic chip based cards do not have this problem. I wonder who made the card for the Dell? Sounds like one to avoid, in any event. ====================================== When philosophy conflicts with reality, choose fantasy. Dave Alderman -- dave@persprog.com ======================================
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