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Question about NCR based board.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dirk Foersterling)
Tue Jul 8 13:00:25 1997
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 15:18:28 +0200
From: milliByte@DeathsDoor.com (Dirk Foersterling)
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu (Linux SCSI list)
Reply-To: milliByte@DeathsDoor.com (Dirk Foersterling)
Hi linux-scsi@,
I use a NCR 53c825 based board. The driver I use is ncr53c8xx (V1.18d)
and this driver confirms the SCSI chip being an NCR 53c825. (It is
printed on the chip, too).
Now that I took time to find out some more about SCSI, I have read
several times that the 825 is a WIDE chip and that there exist boards
lacking the narrow connector.
I'm not 100% sure, but it seems that my board is vice-versa and does not
have a WIDE connector. There's only one internal connector (narrow) and
a high density 50 pin external connector. AFAIK wide-SCSI connectors are
68 pin.
The BIOS (SDMS 4.0, Flash-EPROM) counts from SCSI ID 0 up to 15 indicating
a search for wide devices.
Does anybody on the list know what's up with this board? Its design looks
like a bad joke. Or did I get something wrong and it is possible to connect
wide-SCSI devices to that board?
-dirk
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