On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Sean Davis wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:39:29AM +0100, Sten Spans wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Rick Kelly wrote:
> >
> > > Rafal Boni said:
> > >
> > > >Isn't there also some stupidity with respect to the channels (chip design or
> > > >brain-damage prevent us from accessing them independently or forcing us to
> > > >serialize access), or am I mis-remembering?
> > >
> > > I have an Ultra 5 running 1.6.1 using a Symbios Logic 53c875 and an 18 gig
> > > disk. Works pretty good.
> > >
> >
> > Please note that anything, yes anything, other than a 875 wont work,
> > for booting that is. This chip is supported because it's in the
> > ultra60, axi and so on, which means that the obp has special
> > support for it.
>
> Adaptec cards will work, if you know someone with a pci-equipped Mac to
> flash them. I'm using an Adaptec AHA-2940UW flashed for OFW in my Ultra5,
> and it boots from it just fine.

That is nice to know :).

> > The only easy option is symbios 875.
>
> In my experience looking around, finding specific sym cards is not easy.

875's are pretty common, mostly from when you needed scsi to
burn cdrom's, getting a used one should be pretty easy.

-- 
Sten Spans

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