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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Support for AHA-2740/T SCSI
Date: 28 Jul 94 20:11:41 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <318u7o$400@elvis.cs.umd.edu> jdowdal@cs.umd.edu (John Dowdal) writes:

>In article <michaelv.775380687@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>,

>Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@iastate.edu> wrote:
>>       bt946c  PCI   FAST SCSI-2 (10MB/s)
>>
>>If you have a PCI bus, you might also check out the new PCI SCSI cards
>>based on the NCR 810 chip, which are supposed to be quite good.

>Does the bt946c work with freebsd or linux?  It isn't in any of the FAQ's.
>Same goes for the NCR chips.  I'm looking to buy a PCI/pentium machine
>by the end of the month and would like to find something that preferably
>works with both free unixes.

I don't actually own a PCI machine.  But, I've heard of several people
successfully using the bt946c with NetBSD and FreeBSD, using the
standard bt742a driver that works with virtually all the BusLogic
cards.  There is also a beta driver for the NCR810 under NetBSD that
supposedly works quite well.  I don't know if FreeBSD has this driver.
I can't tell you anything about Linux and PCI.

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 Michael L. VanLoon                 Iowa State University Computation Center
    michaelv@iastate.edu                    Project Vincent Systems Staff
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