Subject: Re: Can you boot with the aic driver with a SoundBlaster-SCSI-2?
To: None <bsdealwi@math.uwaterloo.ca>
From: Mark Gooderum <gooderum@sctc.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/24/1994 14:16:15
> Can you boot from a disk attached to a SoundBlaster SCSI-2?
> 
> -- 
> Brian de Alwis - University of Waterloo: bsdealwis@math.uwaterloo.ca
>  "Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion" -- Richard Burton

In a word, no.  The Soundblaster SCSI-2 has no BIOS and is non-bus mastering
(and in fact doesn't use DMA in the current driver).

However, it makes a fine secondary controller and performs about as well
(slightly better) than an ISA bus non-buffered IDE controller (my 
personal experience).

-Mark
 

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