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From: roberto@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ultra Wide Scsi - which controller?
Date: 22 Apr 1997 13:05:04 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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In article <5jhd1h$nau@synboon.picky.or.jp>,
Minoru mitt Shimura <mitt@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp> wrote:
> But ASUS SC200 doesn't have 'boot-rom' in itself. So, it had better to be 
> used on ASUS-motherboad.

Many motherboard have NCR SCSI BIOS on them so you're not limited to
ASUS. Having a more BIOS complete one with diags and format would be nice
to have (like the Adaptec's one).

> How about Tekram DC390F(78Cxx chip)? (ref: http://www.tekram.com/ )
> It is supported on FreeBSD-2.2.1(from release txt).
> I heard from several Japanese FreeBSD users using DC390U at SCSI.
> But few of them use DC390F at Ultra-Wide-SCSI.

Never tried them.
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