Does anyone know if a good 'ol standard 2940 will fit in the qube???  it's 
shorter than the UW, but a bit longer than the 2904/06. 

Quoting Henning Schmiedehausen <hps@intermeta.de>:

> Hi,
> 
> BIOS won't help you much as the CPU of the Qube is not an Intel
> compatible.
> 
> As far as I can remember; Cobalt sold a 2700 with an Adaptec 2904 for a
> short time as "SCSI Qube". I seem to remember that they explicitly
> recommended the Adaptec Card because it fits into the Qube and works
> with the PCI bus in the Qube. I never had any luck with Symbios Logic
> based cards (using the CobaltOS).
> 
> 	Regards
> 		Henning
> 
> On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 21:34, Matt Dainty wrote:
> > * Brian <bmcewen@comcast.net> [2004-03-07 20:18:27]:
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure what "simple" means :)
> > 
> > Oh I meant just dumb SCSI cards, no BIOS, etc. I guess one with a BIOS
> > would work, just unnecessary :-)
> > 
> > > The "QubeQuorner" FAQ lists several models of older card that work with 
> > > the CobaltOS in the Qube, per my post the other week I've got one 
> > > installed and a kernel compiled under NetBSD but it produces a constant 
> > > mesg which may or may not be normal.  I thought I had time to actually 
> > > put a drive on there this weekend but it is not going to happen.
> > > 
> > > The FAQ is at <http://weblogs.userland.com/qube/faq/> and the SCSI card 
> > > question is the very last one. YES it talks about  Cobalt driver 
> > > support but it has to be compatible hardware, whether there is NetBSD 
> > > support or not it's hard to research, the SCSI compatibilty of NetBSD 
> > > isn't documented readily anywhere I looked, more info is available 
> > > about compatible tape drives etc than PCI card models.
> > 
> > Thanks for the pointer, I guess an Adaptec 2904 would work as nearly all
> > recent Adaptec cards all use the same driver, (ahc(4) IIRC). I have
> > 2940UW and 2940U2W cards but these are too long for the case, and I
> > don't feel like cutting them to fit ;-)
> > 
> > Matt
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