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From: larry@trauma.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI PCI host adapter
Date: 26 Aug 1995 12:34:09 -0400
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References: <418r3m$9c6@trauma.rn.com> <419963$hst@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <41eadg$1ajc@news.mindspring.com> <41n8oa$nld@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
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In article <41n8oa$nld@gate.sinica.edu.tw>,
Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
>In article <41eadg$1ajc@news.mindspring.com>, Steven A. DuChene <sad@sduchene.mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>SCSI device.  If you have a cheap IDE drive as your boot disk, then
>the NCR will work in practically any PCI motherboard (this applies to
>FreeBSD and any OS that supplies its own BIOS-independent hardware
>driver).

But what if I want to boot of the SCSI drive connected to my NCR
host adapter?  My motherboard is an Opti PCI/VLB 100 Mhz.

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