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From: Don Stewart <don.stewart@Dundee.NCR.COM>
Subject: Re: PCI 2940 Config (and NCR)
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==========Russell Carter, 04/09/95==========
In article <42f5tp$ca@trauma.rn.com>, Larry Snyder <larry@rn.com> wrote:
>In article <1995Sep3.134248.26342@wavehh.hanse.de>,
>Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de> wrote:
>>ggrant@crl.com (Gary E. Grant) writes:
>>
>>>In article <4298im$h4@trauma.rn.com>, Larry Snyder <larry@rn.com> wrote:
>>>>I recently installed a 2940 Host Adapter in my machine and am using
>>>>the default settings including "Extended DOS translation for drives
>>>>greater than 1 Gig = Enabled".  I have a 2 gig SCSI drive with a 400
>>>>meg partition (the first partiion) as DOS, a 1400 meg BSD partition
>>>>(FreeBSD 2.0.5) and the 3rd partition is FreeBSD swap.

>Oh, maybe I missed this but WTH.  Which drive is it?  It does matter.

>And WRT to the 2940/53c810 interoperability issue, I've just gone through
>a half dozen make worlds each on a problematic drive, the 4.3 Quantum Grand
>Prix, and if the NCR survives the boot it handles the drive nearly
identically
>to the 2940. Performance wise, that is.

I'm  running a Connor 4.3GB SCSI drive on a 2940 with FreeBSD, NT, Win95, DOS
& OS/2 .
When I installed these operating systems I had both the 2940 & an NCR 810
installed.

I tried to install Slackware Linux & it didn't like the 2940.  I put the HDD &
CD onto the 810
and it installed. All my old operating systems still booted and ran with no
probs.

It would seem from this that on my system both controllers work in the same
fashion.

>Regards,
>Russell
>http://www.geli.com Distributed Computing Solutions/Pentium Workstation
Clusters

regards.

Don.

Don Stewart.
AT&T GIS, Dundee, Scotland.
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