[1098] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: WIDE SCSI NCR controller & ASUS board
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (owner-linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu)
Fri Dec 13 08:39:19 1996
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 14:36:59 +0100
From: owner-linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
To: srb@cuci.nl
CC: ncr53c810@colorado.edu, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <199612130442.FAA30321@hera.cuci.nl> (srb@cuci.nl)
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Does anybody know which PCI cards with wide SCSI NCR (Symbios) controllers
are on the market?
I'm trying to locate such a card (actually, three of them) for use in three
ASUS P55T2P4 motherboards in connection with nine 2GB Quantum wide-SCSI ATLAS
drives.
Preferably, it should be obtainable in either Germany or The Netherlands
(Belgium might do, in a pinch).
Any ideas? Is this a bad idea? Will it still boot from SCSI afterward?
According to some advertisements in the German computer magazine c't (Heise Verlag)
issue 01/97 for example
pg. 403: Comptronic Hardware
Eichholz 35
20459 Hamburg
Tel.: 0049 40 31943 75/79
Fax : 0049 40 31964 28
Symbioslogic 8251S Wide SCSI 255,- DM
8751 UW SCSI 359,- DM
pg. 440: Delektron Datensysteme
Landwehrstr. 32-b
80336 München
Tel.: 0049 89 598851
Fax.: 0049 89 598861
Symbios(NCR) 8751S Ultra Wide 299,- DM
8751S Ultra Wide Kit 349,- DM
P.S. If one could choose between an ASUS P55T2P4 motherboard and a SOYO 5VA2
(both with P133) for running Linux; which one would you pick (and why)?
I tend to favour the ASUS, but maybe I'm wrong.
Both boards have been compared by c't (issue 12/96). The Soyo is reported to
have problems with the upcoming Pentium P55C-200 (MMX), Cyrix P200+ (2.7),
Cyrix P166+ (2.6), (which are running fine in the ASUS). On the other side
it supports SDRAM, which the ASUS doesn't. But have your own look at the article
which compares all the major Pentium boards, and don't look only at the tables,
there are even more informations in the text (eg. the ASUS default RAM access is
a little bit slower than that of other motherboards, obviously to be on the
save side with bad RAM, but you can manualy override the settings within the
BIOS setup; the tables only show the values for the default configuration)
--
Bernd Anhaeupl Tel.: +49 9131 857787
LATE - Uni Erlangen
Cauerstr. 7 Email: anhaeupl@late.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de
91058 Erlangen
