[9fans] LSI Logic/Symbios/NCR SCSI support

[9fans] LSI Logic/Symbios/NCR SCSI support

[Douglas]

Nigel Roles wrote:
> Current the best known OEM for LSI/Symbios/NCR boards are Tekram.

ASUS (mostly a motherboard maker) makes one (810 based) that
I have had good luck with, and the BIOSes on many of their
motherboards include the LSI(NCR,Symbios) SCSI support code,
meaning among other things that one can boot a SCSI disk.

[9fans] LSI Logic/Symbios/NCR SCSI support

[Anssi]

There is a nice discussion of Rob's systems research comments in Slashdot:

(register and set yout thresold at 3 or higher)

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/06/1151209&mode=nested

[9fans] LSI Logic/Symbios/NCR SCSI support

[Nigel]

Any card containing one of the following chips is supported

NCR53C810
SYM53C810ALV
SYM53C810A
SYM53C810AP
NCR53C815
NCR53C825
SYM53C825A
SYM53C860
SYM53C860LV
SYM53C875r1
SYM53C875
SYM53C875j
SYM53C885
SYM53C895
SYM53C896

That is, every chip but the Ultra-160 variant, the 53C1010.
This is not rocket science, I just don't have access to one to test it.

Current the best known OEM for LSI/Symbios/NCR boards are Tekram.
(www.tekram.com). They do have some models which are not based
on these chips. The good models (not all current) are

DC-310, DC-310U, DC-390U, DC390W, DC-390F, DC-390U2B, DC-390U2W

LSI boards are fine too, of course. This URL is LSI's list of
OEMs...

http://www.lsilogic.com/techsupp/support+drivers/otheroem.html

There is also at least one German company, but I've lost track of the name.

-----Original Message-----
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com [mailto:jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com]
Sent: 01 June 2000 21:44
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Hardware compati list for new release?


There is no hardware list as yet, but trawling through the 9fans archives
should give an idea of what we've tried.

The ATI Mach64 cards are the best supported, there's even some acceleration
used.

Currently, only the aging Mylex (was Buslogic) PCI and EISA Multimaster SCSI
cards
and the Symbios (was NCR, now LsiLogic) 53C8XX series SCSI chips have
drivers. The
Symbios chips can be found on many OEM cards (sorry, I don't have a list)
and on
many motherboards (but sadly not as many as the Adaptec chips). Contact your
local
LsiLogic rep. to find where you can buy the cards they make themselves,
they're very
reasonably priced.