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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!du248-10.cc.iastate.edu!explorer From: explorer@iastate.edu (Michael Graff) Subject: Re: [Very Late SUMMARY] SCSI controller reccomendations for *BSD. Message-ID: <explorer.746154182@du248-10.cc.iastate.edu> Keywords: SUMMARY SCSI BSD 386 Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <24vuul$apo@gdls.gdls.com> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 01:03:02 GMT Lines: 30 In <24vuul$apo@gdls.gdls.com> ammond@gdls.com (Joseph R. Ammond) writes: >---------- >From: steve@nuchat.sccsi.com (Steve Nuchia) >Subject: no subject (file transmission) >Go with Buslogic (was Bustek) instead. Adaptec's "support" is >user-hostile to the point where I don't deal with them any more. That's funny... I just called them today, and after fighting my way through the moron tech support, I got an RMA number and they are overnighting me a replacement. The person I talked to after the moronic tech support guy was great. >i'd avoid the 1542c-- the earlier revisions have had several >problems from what i hear. in addition to the problem >i experienced, there was apparently some problem w/external >cabling, as well... i dunno how much, if any, of the problems >the later revs have fixed. The next revisions are working better. I suspect you want to get one with a letter higher than a `b' on the square chip. Just a guess, because that was one identifying mark I was asked for before I was told that the card was bad. -- Michael Graff <explorer@iastate.edu> Speaking for myself, not Project Vincent Voice: (515)294-4994 for ISU or the ISUCC Iowa State Univ Comp Center Fax: (515)294-1717 Ames, IA 50011 -=*> PGP key on pgp-public-keys@pgp.iastate.edu <*=-