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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: VL SCSI recommendation?
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I'm torn between the Adaptec 2842 and the Buslogic 445. I presume that
both have a floppy controller? One vendor I'm looking at prices the 2842
higher by about $50. What is that buying me? I am leaning towards the
Buslogic because of the non-cooperation of Adaptec with the driver
authors.

P.s. If you're in the bay area, Halted has surplus NE2100 clones (is0)
for $30, in the box with manual and driver disk. Sounds like a pretty
stinking good deal to me. They work beautifully under PCNFS, and they
at least probe properly under the boot floppy (if you boot with -c and
tell it where the card lives).

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