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From: DWHITE01@SERVAX.FIU.EDU (Don Whiteside)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SCSI controller recomendations requested
Date: 14 Sep 1994 23:24:24 GMT
Organization: Florida International University, my eternal home
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In-Reply-To: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com's message of 14 Sep 1994 18:42:12 GMT
In <MICHAELV.94Sep14134212@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com writes:
> In article <Cw3nuw.E8@galaxia.network23.com> dave@galaxia.network23.com (David H. Brierley) writes:
>
> I am looking to put a new SCSI controller in my machine and I wanted
> to get some opinions first. The machine is a 486DX/40, ISA/VLB
> [...]
>
> Adaptec 1542CF (ISA)
>
> Slow. Buying it supports Adaptec's fascist support policies with your
> own dollars. Limited to 16MB of memory on some systems, and even on
> newer systems, will be slower above 16MB. The ISA bus is 16-bits wide
> and runs at 8MHz.
Sigh. I was thinkning about buying a 1542CF, but was having some misgivings
about the benifits of a bus master card, considering my 20 meg of memory and
an ISA bus. Can someone say conclusively what level of benifit I'll get from,
say, a 1542 over a 1522?
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