From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 14 21:33:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA24826 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 21:33:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ppp3-10.GANet.NET [198.30.255.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA24809 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 21:33:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ejc@localhost) by localhost (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA06625; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 00:30:28 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 00:30:25 -0500 (EST) From: "Eric J. Chet" To: "Marc G. Fournier" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACER Motherboard: SCSI Recommendations? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, Eric J. Chet wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi... > > > > > > Now, a friend of mine talked about the NCR PCI controllers > > > that are relatively cheap (~$100), but he mentioned that they work > > > particularly good on an ASUS motherboard... > > > > > I don't think your motherboard has NCR bios built in, so you > > could not use the ASUS NCR scsi card. Acculogic makes a NCR 53c825 > > card which is SCSI-II Fast/Wide and has the bios onboard. I have > > used this card without any problems, with FreeBSD 2.0, 2.0.5, 2.1.0. > > This card sells for about $129 at NECX. > > > > Okay, price is good...but...do I need special hard drives? I > hate to say it, but I really don't know what the various types of SCSI > are :( > > These are the drives I'm running right now. They all come > up as SCSI-2, but that's about the only information that I have on > them...will they support Fast/Wide? If not, is there another > NCR PCI SCSI controller that I can use that will support these > drives? Right now, I'm hanging off of an Adaptec 1542 controller... > The card has a external SCSI-II fast port, a internal SCSI-II fast port and a internal SCSI-II wide port. It will work with your drives. ejc > Then again, am I reading "Fast/Wide" wrong? Should I be > reading it as "Fast *or* Wide"? Cause, looking at Quantum's Home > Page, the LPS340S supports Fast, but it doesn't mentioned Wide.. > > (aha0:0:0): "QUANTUM LPS340S 020B" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 > sd0(aha0:0:0): Direct-Access 327MB (670506 512 byte sectors) > (aha0:2:0): "CONNER CFA540S 13B0" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 > sd1(aha0:2:0): Direct-Access 515MB (1056708 512 byte sectors) > (aha0:6:0): "QUANTUM LP240S GM240S01X 4.6" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 > sd2(aha0:6:0): Direct-Access 234MB (479350 512 byte sectors) > > And, finally...is there anyone out there from the Toronto > area that would know where I can find said controller? I'd prefer > somewhere local, if at all possible... > > Thanks... > > Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting > scrappy@hub.org | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, > soon to be: | | Information and > scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://hub.org | Communications, Inc > > >