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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions From: dermot@dermot.demon.co.uk (Dermot McDonnell) Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!pipex!warwick!qmw-dcs!qmw!demon!dermot.demon.co.uk!dermot Subject: IDE, SCSI & Floppy support on one card? Distribution: world Organization: DIS(organised) Reply-To: dermot@dermot.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.21) Lines: 26 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 12:35:54 +0000 Message-ID: <742739754snz@dermot.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Question: Does anyone in the *BSD community use a controller board that offers both IDE, SCSI[2] and floppy disk drive support? A number of manufacturers are offering this kind of product including AMI. Their 'Series 48 NC SCSI Adapter' (NC=non caching) card offers, quoting them: SCSI-2 (Fast SCSI) - AHA154X and BL742B standard protocol for COMPATIBILITY. IDE - Supports 2 IDE drives in addition to SCSI Floppy Drives - fully IBM AT register set compatible - Intel 82077 Has local Intel 80188 cpu for PARALLEL processing. (Bus Mastering??) Note: This is an EISA card. I did see another card offering similar functionality in the back pages of recent BYTEs - sorry, I don't have a copy handy :-( Is there support for this kind of product? I don't know if it runs in 'standard' mode - ie. ISA emulation mode. It strikes me as a potentially useful item for those with an IDE investment who wish to move into SCSI devices. Regards, Dermot. -- Dermot McDonnell - dermot@dermot.demon.co.uk Voice:+44 81 291 6602 (Home) +44 71 606 1066 x1323 (Work)