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Re: NCR SCSI newbie query
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James W. Laferriere)
Wed Jan 8 23:48:54 1997
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 21:47:54 -0800 (PST)
From: "James W. Laferriere" <babydr@nwrain.com>
To: Gary Kahn <gkahn@erols.com>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <32D45CE5.36C8531C@erols.com>
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Gary Kahn wrote:
> 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,
I've been successfully using an ASUS-NCR53C810
based card, even as my boot disk controller & without
NCR/Symbios enhanced bios. Btw, most better pentium
ready M.B.'s carry the Scsi ready bios.
Highly recommend using the NCR53c8xx driver it supports
the /proc & etc....
I beleive the 'flash rom' statement above actually concerns
the M.B. & not the scsi card.
The 53C815 based cards -have- the NCR/Symbios bios on board.
Hth, JimL
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