Date: Sat, 18 Mar 95 22:39:43 CST From: "David Kelly" <dkelly@iquest.com> To: "Daniel Leeds" <dleeds@eagle.ais.net>, questions@FreeBSD.org, "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: ultrastor 34f Message-ID: <dkelly.1145975623B@mail.iquest.com>
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>> >> Hiya! >> >> I want to know if the ultrastor 34f controller (scsi-2) VL will work with >> freebsd, I heard it does, but want to know if it is stable and works >> well before I buy it. > >The Ultrastor 34F does work, it is stable, it does have the nasty habit >of causeing high interrupt latency as it seems to grab the bus for long >periods of time. > >Utrastor is also out of business, so if you are buying one get a real >good deal on it. > >If any one wants one of these I will gladly sell mine for $150.00 as >it see's very limited use any more since I have converted almost all >of my systems to PCI (I use it to test VL bus mastering slots, but I >have Bt445C's for that now). > >This is the full kit with all the software and I'll through in a brand >new 2 drive cable. You pay UPS ground shipping, should be <$10.00 to >anyplace in the states. > >-- >Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com >Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD UltraStor is not out of business. Call 714-581-4100 and ask them yourself. Last month I returned one of the first 14F's for repair/upgrade. My card was replaced with and upgrade. And the damn thing failed just exactly the same way as the prior one did. Then I noticed new jumper definitions in the new manual (quite sure they were not in the original manual, which I can't find at the moment) where one can set the maximum time the card occupies the ISA bus. Default was 11uS. Set to 9uS it works. At 11uS I couldn't get thru DOS 5.0's fdisk without a lockup. Golly! Isn't it great how COMPATIBLE the Industry Standard Architecture bus is? -- David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@iquest.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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