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Subject: Re: 2.2.2-RELEASE '875 SCSI won't negotiage 
In-reply-to: Message from j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) 
   of "Tue, 21 Oct 1997 08:17:59 +0200." <19971021081759.TH50130@uriah.heep.sax.de> 
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Joerg Wunsch replies:
>
> As dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote:
> 
> > > sd0(ncr0:0:0): WIDE SCSI (16 bit) enabled
> > > sd0(ncr0:0:0): 20.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 16)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Shouldn't this report back 40.0 MB/s  for fast wide ultra ?
> > 
> > Probably should.
> 
> Probably should not.  It should read as ``20 MHz'', this makes no
> promises about the actual speed.

Poor choice of words on my part. The ncr driver is calling things exactly 
right. Went back and RTFM'ed my Asus SC875 manual and obsverved on page 11 
the default Synchronous Transfer Rate (MS/Sec) (sic) is 20. So is this MB/
sec or MHz? Time to reboot and see what numbers I can enter in the BIOS.

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