On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 Robertdkeys@aol.com wrote:

> I have a cmd board coming in the mail, it things go well.  I will put it into
> an MVII or MVIII critter and try things again.  The board that I did the tests
> on was an SQ706 board.  That was a nice board.  I dunno how the cmd
> boards rate, but from what you are saying, they may be marginal.  Could
> it be a speed issue?  I have a webster controller for 4 esdi drives that just
> will not work right on anything but a slow speed MVII cpu.  A faster MVIII
> causes the controller to crash.  Someone said it was a timing issue in
> the controllers.  Dunno beyond that.

hmm, i dont know. Ive never had trouble from my CMD boards. I've run them 
on the slowest uvaxII and on just about the fastest they come, a 4000/600,
and had no trouble from them and quite decent performance to boot. the 
firmware is decently well-featured, and can do an appropriate amount of 
mangling and reconfiguring of the disks that one can spend half an hour 
of quality entertainment messing with it, and the cards seem to hold up 
well in a not particularly well-maintained environment (my living room, where
temperatures can fluctuate and dust is never on short supply) even for 
months on end. I use one currently in a uvax-3 box running netbsd 1.3.2, 
and another in a uvax-3 running 4.3tahoe, and another in the 4k600 
running 4.3-tahoe (but trying to port 1.3.something to it, after failing 
to get reno to run properly on it). Ive never used one with vms, but 
they work fine with ultrix 4.1. 
> 
> Do the cmd board work OK on Ultrix?

isildur