[1099] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: WIDE SCSI NCR controller & ASUS board
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lam Dang)
Fri Dec 13 10:29:06 1996
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:33:15 -0500
From: Lam Dang <dangit@ix.netcom.com>
To: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>
CC: ncr53c810@colorado.edu,
Linux SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>
> 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).
You may want to try the FastCache controllers from a company (US,
unfortunately) called CSC (http://www.corpsys.com).
I've had no problem running Linux 2.0.X (with either NCR driver) and
Windows NT (3.51 and 4.0, with CSC's driver) using CSC's wide SCSI
controller (US$139) for an IBM 2G wide drive ($30 for 68-pin flat cable)
and external SCSI-2 tape drive and CDROM drive ($50 for SCSI-3 to SCSI-2
cable). The motherboard is an old ASUS 486 PCI/VLB board without SCSI
BIOS. The controller (PCI) is a Symbios 53c825. I've had no trouble
running Linux at 20MHz with it.
Hope this helps.
--
Lam Dang
dangit@ix.netcom.com
(301) 948-8699
