Return to BSD News archive
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-