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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!caen!uwm.edu!convex.csd.uwm.edu!einar From: einar@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Einar Bergsson) Subject: Re: Group purchase, anyone? Message-ID: <1992Jul15.214045.6216@uwm.edu> Originator: einar@convex.csd.uwm.edu Sender: news@uwm.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: einar@convex.csd.uwm.edu Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee References: <BrG6tt.7o7@acsu.buffalo.edu> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1992 21:40:45 GMT Lines: 29 >From article <BrG6tt.7o7@acsu.buffalo.edu>, by ferrick@acsu.buffalo.edu (Patrick K. Ferrick): > > I'm getting ready to buy a 486/33 EISA motherboard specifically to run 386BSD, > and I would be very interested in finding out what your feelings are about the > following ideas: > > 3. Maybe we could agree on several interface cards while we're at it. So > far, it sounds like an Adaptek EISA/SCSI card might be one good way to go. > (I forget the number, 1750 or something but you know the one I mean :-) > For the moment, run it in 16-bit mode. When EISA support comes along, > there you are...(I heard 0.3, but there's that question of hardware!) > Same deal as #2, where we get one for the developers, too. Just something you might wanna think about: Although Adaptek's SCSI interface is probably one of the most popular ones, it is not very fast. I have one here at work that I hooked to a EISA box. I was kinda dissapointed in the performance over an IDE drive A very good friend of mine told me that his BUStech EISA/SCSI was MUCH faster than the 1750, and $200 less expensive. Now I dont have a BUStech card to verify this, but if someone has compared these two, and if I am right, then mabe it would be wise to reconcider the choice of a SCSI card. Just a thought....Please don't flame me if you think I have no clue what I am talking about. -- -Einar-