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Is the BIOS compatible with the 2944W in secondary slots, primary &
secondary slots together, primary only slots, etc.?
ANSWER:
Primary Slot Only OK.. Secondary Slot only OK.. Primary/Seondary together:-
We have 2 controllers but only one differential to single ended convertor,
therefor
our qualification tests are restricted. The Rushmore bios does sense the
second card,
and scans the scsi bus looking for attached devices, finding none, it does not
load.
Does NT load drivers and see everything OK?
ANSWER:
Yes, no problems
A total of four 2944W controllers will be used in this configuration with
custom NT device drivers that customer has already written and tested in
unbridged backplanes. Things work OK so far. The customer is using a PC
with AMI BIOS today. I don't know if it's Triton II or what.
RESPONSE:
As detailed above we have limited hardware available for qualification.
However,
I loaded the PCI slots with Adaptec 2940 / 2940uw / 3940uw / 2944w.
This setup booted, and recognised the drives without incident, therefor it is
reasonable
to assume that a multiple 2944w configuration would function likewise.
I cannot comment on custom drivers.
regards
Billy Mcilear (DMCC Ayr)
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