Subject: Re: AS1200 and 53c875 SCSI controller
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/22/2005 20:01:51
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 10:27:49AM +0000, Steve Kirk wrote:
> 
> 1) I've seen an LSI 8751SP SCSI card for sale.
> This uses the NCR/Symbios 53c875(SP I think) - would I be able to boot
> from this card? I'm using the onboard StorageWorks shelf.

A DS20 has no problems booting from these, but I think it's newer than the
AS1200.

> I see from the archives that there were problems with 53c875 based controllers.
> Have these problems been resolved? It sounded like a driver issue, but I'm not
> sure about this.

I'm using a NFS server with several 53c875 and 53c1010 SCSI adapters, no
problems.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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