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NCR SCSI newbie query
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Kahn)
Wed Jan 8 21:52:23 1997
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 21:50:13 -0500
From: Gary Kahn <gkahn@erols.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
I'm considering buying the NCR/Symbios 53C810-based card sold by SWT.
When I looked in the kernel SCSI headers, I found a pre-purchase
question. The 53C810 support said something about "requires flash BIOS"
since the SCSI card has no BIOS of its own.
Can I buy the 53C810-based card for use with my generic PCI-based
Pentium machine? Or do I need further information about the machine
first? The LILO boot sector will remain on my existing IDE drive, but I
may at some point want to have the root partition and the kernel
executable on a SCSI drive attached to the new SCSI card.
Thanks for any help.
Gary Kahn gkahn@erols.com
