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From: foo@yoda.fdt.net (R. M. Star)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI PCI host adapter
Date: 01 Sep 1995 01:45:07 GMT
Organization: Florida Digital Turnpike
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In article <41sjek$rtu@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

   Rudy Amid <rudy@hcl.com> wrote:

   >  How does the NCR controller compares to the Adaptec AHA2940 PCI controller?
   >The price difference is one, but what about performance?

   I remember some figures that claimed the AHA2940 could get about 20 %
   more than the NCR.

while the 2940 is a faster card, it's also much more expensive.  an AHA2940
will cost around 190, whereas an NCR53c810 (biosless) is a mere 60 (i just
bought one)... and the 815 w/ bios is around 110.  it makes much more sense
if you have multiple drives to buy may NCR's and put less drives on each,
allowing each drive a large portion of the scsi bus.

	ksh