Subject: Re: NCR SCSI
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@awadi.com.au>
From: Mark Willey <willeyma@expert.cc.purdue.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/27/1996 17:24:07
Brett Lymn writes:
> 
> According to Mark Willey:
> >
> >> I know a name to avoid:  SC200
> >> 
> >> I had one of these suckers and it just would not work in my Pentium
> >> motherboard - not even in DOS.  I swapped the board with a friend for
> >
> ><...>
> >
> >I've got one that works very well.  Never had a problem with it...
> >
> 
> Is that in a ASUS Pentium Motherboard?  I did try the thing in a PCI
> 486 board and it worked fine, I tried it in both P/I-P55SP4 and
> P/I-P55TP4N motherboards and it failed miserably.  I had someone else
> try it in their ASUS Motherboard (not sure of the model) and he said
> it worked ok.  So it seems, as with a lot of PC hardware, YMMV.

Yeah,  it's a P-100.  P/I-P55TP4XE.  The one thing that I wish the card
could do is to remap bad blocks...

> BTW during this playing I found there is a _big_ speed difference
> between the SiS and the Triton motherboards, at least with the two I
> tried there was.  About a factor of 2 in favour of the Triton!

I've always heard that the Triton boards are quite nice.  So I got one, and
it's nice.  :)

Mark