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Date:      Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:55:53 -0800
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ultra 5 workstation announcement
Message-ID:  <199801272155.NAA05021@feral.com>

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>From owner-freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org  Tue Jan 27 05:10:07 1998
>In list.freebsd-sparc Wes Peters wrote:
> > > I agree with Greg's thought, if you want SCSI, add a SCSI controller.  I
> > > don't think Sun is positioning the Ultra 5 for I/O intensive applications.
> > 
> > Yeah, NCR 875 boards are pretty cheap these days ($140).
>
>Can you boot an Ultra-5 from one of those?  You need a SCSI
>adapter with OpenBoot ROM support, otherwise you won't be
>able to boot the beast.  An el-cheapo NCR certainly won't do.
>
>Regards
>   Oliver Fromme

Not quite true. The glm hba driver and random otehr NCR boards
do work on the PCI SCSI cards. If you have problems, I can
also go yell at the Sun driver writer.



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