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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!nntp.uio.no!uninett.no!not-for-mail From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) Newsgroups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ASUS SC200 SCSI controller ? Date: 09 Mar 1997 17:25:55 GMT Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5furr3$1nm@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <5fpiic$hkq@chronicle.concentric.net> <33217e9c.1983111@news.hk.linkage.net> <5fuqig$80q@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dole.uninett.no In-reply-to: rodsmith@indiana.edu's message of 9 Mar 1997 17:04:16 GMT Cache-Post-Path: dole.uninett.no!unknown@verdi.nethelp.no Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus:36206 comp.periphs.scsi:72619 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36793 [Rod Smith] | >> Can it be used in any PCI system or only ASUS ? I understand there is | >>a BIOS issue. | > | >As well explained by previous mail, you can simply find a Award bios | >mother board will support it. | | This isn't correct. The NCR SDMS support that's required by NCR/Symbios | 53c810-based host adapters is **NOT** part of the Award BIOS. It's a | separate entity that happens to be included with assorted motherboards, | and happens to be distributed in the same file as those motherboards' | flash BIOS images. It is licensed for use by the motherboard | manufacturer, *NOT* by Award. Many motherboards with Award BIOSes do | include this support, but then, so do many motherboards with BIOSes from | AMI, Phoenix, or others. You've got to check on this issue specifically | for each motherboard, no matter what the main BIOS it uses. There's a (partial) list of motherboards that support the NCR SDMS BIOS at: http://www.nethelp.no/scsi/ncrbios.html Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no