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From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
Subject: Re: Wannabe NetBSD user
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
References: <CrI5By.7AJ@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1994Jun19.042728.16327@news.csuohio.edu> <CrpEnw.EE1@serval.net.wsu.edu> <michaelv.772136873@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 20:05:11 GMT
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Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@iastate.edu) wrote:

: You want the BusLogic bt946c for a PCI bus.  BusLogic makes a *lot* of
: controllers for all different bus designs (even MCA ;-).  The bt946c
: is a SCSI-2 FAST controller.  It is not WIDE.  I don't believe the
: wide controller is out for the PCI bus yet, the only wide controller
: from them that I know of being the bt757s for the EISA bus.  But I
: don't know of that many SCSI-2 devices that do wide anyway, except for
: the really expensive stuff.  (This last statement, of course, is going
: to spawn a whole thread of wide devices just to prove me wrong, I'm
: sure. :-p )

Is there a BusLogic localbus SCSI supported by NetBSD?

I'm using an ancient Adaptec 1540A currently, but I would like to
get a faster controller that will also allow 32 megs of memory.



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Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  rmk@bedford.progress.com