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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.rrz.uni-hamburg.de!news.dkrz.de!tubsibr!petri From: petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Stefan Petri) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: won't work w/ NCR PCI SCSI Date: 19 Oct 1995 10:14:14 GMT Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany Lines: 16 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4658dm$kiv@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> References: <461ec4$a7s_001@martis-d225.sierra.net> Reply-To: petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Stefan Petri) NNTP-Posting-Host: kastor.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de >Neither NetBSD nor FreeBSD will work with the following hardware: > ASUS PCI/I-486SP3G motherboard > on-board NCR 53C810 PCI SCSI chip with: > ID 0: Micropolis MC4110 Fast SCSI-2 hard drive > ID 1: TEAC CD-50 SCSI-2 CD-ROM drive I have / had several FreeBSD snaps / releases _later_ than (!) 2.0 installed and running on the ASUS SP3G with SCSI disks at the on-board NCR 53C810, w/o major problems, insensitive against fiddling with the chipset/cache options. My disks, though, are Quantum Fireball 730S, and some ancient Micropolis drives recycled from old Sun3. For the Fireball, I get just below 4MBit/sec throughput. I guess, you should do upgrade to the latest FreeBSD snapshot release. Stefan