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From: rcarter@best.com (Russell Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI PCI host adapter
Date: 20 Aug 1995 20:49:46 -0700
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In article <418r3m$9c6@trauma.rn.com>,
Larry Snyder <larry@trauma.rn.com> wrote:
>I currently have a EIDE 1.2 gig caviar drive on this machine, and I
>would like to replace it with a 2 gig 7200RPM, 512k of cache Connor
>SCSI 2 drive.
>
>I run FreeBSD, Linux and DOS.  I'm interested in a Fast, SCSI PCI
>host adapter - but I don't want to spend lots of money.  What options
>do I have besides the Adaptec 2940 for the above operating systems
>that is fast (or maybe, faster)?
>

Check out 

http://www.geli.com/data/disk.perf.html

for a number of interesting drive performance data using the NCR
PCI driver performance for a number of interesting drives.

Regards,
Russell
http://www.geli.com


>larry
>
>-- 
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