On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 05:14:02PM -0700, Monroe Williams wrote:
> 
> It appears that the Adaptec 29160 card I bought for my NetBSD-macppc server
> Just Doesn't Work Reliably under NetBSD.  I've tried it in two different
> machines, with several different cables and drives, and it always blows up.
> (See my posts earlier this month to port-macppc for details.)  I even get
> errors on boot when probing the bus when NOTHING is plugged into the card
> (not even a cable).  Under MacOS 9 and X, everything seems to work fine.
> 
> I've also tried a couple of earlier models of Adaptec SCSI cards (2940UW and
> 2940U2W), and while it seems that earlier models are more reliable, I've had
> intermittent failures with them all.
> 
> I'm now looking for any data points related to _any_ fast/wide SCSI cards
> being used with NetBSD.  Both success stories and failures are valuable.
> The faster the better (I've got Ultra160 drives waiting to be used), but I'd
> like to hear about anything down to Ultra-Wide.

NCR/symbios 53cxxx based card should work fine. I tried a tekram 390U in a
macppc and it worked.
The 53c1010 should be supported in -current but only in U2W mode (80MB/s).
the tekram isn't bootable though, I'm not sure if there are any NCR/symbios
based adapters which will boot on a macppc.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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