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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!news.ppp.de!news.Hanse.DE!wavehh.hanse.de!cracauer From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Subject: Re: SCSI PCI host adapter Message-ID: <1995Sep3.133310.26176@wavehh.hanse.de> Organization: The Internet References: <418r3m$9c6@trauma.rn.com> <1995Aug29.125909.28500@wavehh.hanse.de> <shimon.809740893@ark> <1995Aug30.074902.1035@wavehh.hanse.de> <42846g$2e9@trauma.rn.com> Date: Sun, 3 Sep 95 13:33:10 GMT Lines: 24 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.scsi:36771 comp.os.linux.hardware:14904 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5523 comp.os.linux.setup:19192 larry@rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes: >I just installed a Quantum 7200 RPM SCSI-II drive connected >to a 2940. I also have a NCR controller. The disk has a 400 >meg DOS partition first, then a 1390 meg BSD partition, and >the third partition is all BSD swap space. >I can't interchange the 2940 with the NCR card and run the machine >on a reliable basis with FreeBSD. >It will run for a while with the NCD card then tend to lock up the >SCSI bus. It appears to run just fine with the 2940. Almost all NCR cards I've seen have termination problems. Try a active terminator on your drive or try the ASUS-SC 200 NCR cards. >Shouldn't I be able to just swap cards and run using the default >kernel with either the NCR or the 2940? I does for me, yes. -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de>. No NeXTMail, please. Norderstedt/Hamburg, Germany. Fax +49 40 522 85 36. This is a private address. At (netless) work programming in data analysis.