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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!goliath.csn.tu-chemnitz.de!rwa From: Ronald Wahl <rwa@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: SCSI PCI host adapter Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 19:57:03 +0200 Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG Lines: 26 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950826195446.1755A-100000@goliath.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> References: <418r3m$9c6@trauma.rn.com> <419963$hst@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <41eadg$1ajc@news.mindspring.com> <41n8oa$nld@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <41nie1$97l@trauma.rn.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: goliath.csn.tu-chemnitz.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: rwa@goliath.csn.tu-chemnitz.de In-Reply-To: <41nie1$97l@trauma.rn.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.scsi:36501 comp.os.linux.hardware:14570 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5312 comp.os.linux.setup:18659 On 26 Aug 1995, Larry Snyder wrote: > In article <41n8oa$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. You need an SDMS SCSI BIOS, either on your SCSI controller or in your system BIOS. Also you have to disable your IDE-Controller. Ronald. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ronald Wahl rwa@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de | | >> PGP key available by finger << http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~row | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | PGP fingerprint: 9D 4A 66 7C A9 9F 6A 5F 90 45 D5 0C DF E5 CB 71 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+