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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI diskIO
Date: 21 Aug 1995 13:33:25 +0200
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news <news@trauma.rn.com> wrote:
>I can't decide on which controller to use. Is the 2940 my only option?
>I have access to an older 2940 (original one) however, I would like to
>know if there is a PCI SCSI host adapter for less money that runs faster
>than the 2940 under FreeBSD, Linux and DOS.
Well, not faster, but almost at the same speed for very less bucks:
the NCR 52c810. I can easily suck 5 MB/s from a (not too fast)
Seagate disk over it, and 4.8 MB/s (each) when running two disks in
parallel. Ain't this enough for you?
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)