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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!uhog.mit.edu!uw-beaver!june.cs.washington.edu!herron From: herron@june.cs.washington.edu (Gary Herron) Subject: Re: Pentium Setup for netbsd Message-ID: <D10sru.Ju3@beaver.cs.washington.edu> Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle References: <3d07g9$ce5@phoenix.vssi.trw.com> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1994 18:59:37 GMT Lines: 37 In article <3d07g9$ce5@phoenix.vssi.trw.com>, b_kondalski@zeus.vssi.trw.com (Brian J. Kondalski) writes: |> I am looking into putting some money into my current PC. I was looking |> to make a decent netbsd system and was wondering what people would |> recommend for a SCSI disk controller (I would prefer a PCI card, but a |> VLB card would be ok) and graphic card (also would prefer PCI). Anyone |> out there have some experiences in this area? |> |> Thanks in advance, |> Brian |> -- |> Brian J. Kondalski b_kondalski@vssi.trw.com TRW VSSI |> Views expressed here are mine. Washington, MI Yes, I have a PCI SCSI card in my Pentium-90, and it has been working wonderfully for several months. The card is based on the fast/wide/SCSI-3 NCR 53C825 chip. (My machine is based on Zenon's Z-wide server package.) The standard distribution of NetBSD-1.0/i386 recognizes the NCR 53C810/53C825 and uses it in normal (8-bit wide) mode. I recently rebuilt the kernel with the NCR driver configured to run in wide mode (16 bits wide transfers). This has been running flawlessly for about a month. The NCR 53C810/53C825 device driver was written by Wolfgang Stanglmeier (wolf@dentaro.gun.de) and Stefan Esser (se@mi.Uni-Koeln.de), and seems extremely well done. -- Dr. Gary Herron | Email: gjh@ag.wa.com Applied Geometry | Snail: PO Box 4561 206-628-0342 | Seattle WA 98104