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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!ishmael.ameslab.gov!deaven From: deaven@ishmael.ameslab.gov (David Deaven) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: SMC Elite16C Ultra with Net/Free BSD? Date: 12 Sep 1994 17:58:04 GMT Organization: Ames Laboratory USDOE Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3524rc$au2@news.iastate.edu> References: <1994Sep6.183803.3888@nosc.mil> <34pacd$dta@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org> <JKH.94Sep9132814@freefall.cdrom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ishmael.ameslab.gov Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> wrote: >In article <34pacd$dta@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org> \ hwr@pilhuhn.de (Heiko W.Rupp) writes: > > I had it running while having a ESDI disk in my NetBSD box. When > upgrading to a BT545 with a scsi disk the disk had many mysterious > errors, which disappeared when I changed from the ultra to a elite > plus. Also on BSDI1.1 I had problems with the ultra, so I don't like > it much. > >Sheesh - I use 4 Elite 16C Ultras in both FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 and FreeBSD 2.0 >without problems - they're NICE controllers! I wonder at all these >other problems people are having.. I'm using three of these cards in NetBSD-0.9 and NetBSD-current systems with no problems whatsoever, and getting close to the maximum transfer rates. I did have to configure the boards with the MS-DOS configuration program supplied with the boards, in order to get the iobase and IRQ set properly, but that's it. The later revisions of the board will only be handled by the -current ed driver, they have a new chip that appeared since the -0.9 driver was written. -- David Deaven deaven@ishmael.ameslab.gov A504 Physics tel 515-294-6878 Ames Laboratory fax 515-294-0689 Ames IA 50011