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From: count@mits.mdata.fi (Bror Heinola)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] What SCSI controllers _are_ supported?
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 06:28:59 GMT
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guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson) writes:

>At the risk of starting another Flame Fest(tm), who beleives that a
>caching controller will improve performance much ( say 5% ) over the
>caching that BSD does?

	Hmm... It seems that my question didn't get any answers but lots
	of crap instead...

	I don't believe that caching controller improves performance very
	much over 386BSD's internal caching, but because I happen to have
	two caching controllers I would like to use them too! It is damn
	annoying to use two old ESDI clunkers with 386BSD when I could be
	using 1gig SCSI instead. Barf.

	So, back to my original question... 

	What SCSI controllers (besides Adaptec AHA1542B) are supported
	by kernel without special drivers, and what special drivers are
	available? 

	I know that I am very likely asking a FAQ but someone could 
	point me to that instead of flaming be because I haven't seen
	any FAQs after BSDBOT left IRC for good...

>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Guy Dawson - Hoskyns Group Plc.
>        guyd@hoskyns.co.uk  Tel Hoskyns UK     -  71 251 2128
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