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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!insync!uunet!in2.uu.net!192.220.251.22!netnews.nwnet.net!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NCR or Symbios SCSI Controller Date: 23 Dec 1996 18:06:44 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 9 Message-ID: <59mhnk$6a3@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <32B5B05F.77E0@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <E2q37p.L4L@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva1.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32937 In <E2q37p.L4L@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: >part of the motherboard BIOS (which is why they only work with >suitable motherboards). This makes no difference to performance, Strictly speaking, this is not correct. While motherboards may not have BIOS support for the NCR card, it will still work in the machine, provided that a different boot device is configured. For example, a small root partition on a IDE disk, and multiple SCSI drives on an NCR card would work fine.