[rescue] DEC PWS433au SCSI card compatability

[Dave McGuire]

On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 06:44 PM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>> And speaking of my DEC PWS433au (which I was in my last post), mine
>> came missing the QLogic SCSI card.  I tried an Adaptec 2940UW, and
>> a 2940U2W in it.  It didn't notice.  Should they show up with
>> sh dev?
> AFAIK the a/au SRM doesn't support Adaptecs. Get a QLogic or Symbios
> Logic adapter. I have two generic PeeCee 53C875 based cards. One works
> well on my PC164, the other isn't seen by SRM. So you may try some
> different Symbios cards to find one, that SRM is happy with.

   I have a PC164.  I needed faster disk I/O for my application, so my 
machine loads its kernel (and *only* the kernel) from a 1GB IDE drive 
connected to one of the onboard IDE interfaces.  That kernel then 
mounts its filesystems from sd0, a screaming-fast IBM UltraStar 
connected to an Adaptec 2940UW host adapter.  This scheme works very 
well.

           -Dave

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