Return to BSD News archive
#! rnews 1980 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.periph.scsi Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!logware.de!newsun.netmbx.de!unlisys!news.maz.net!news.ppp.net!news.Hanse.DE!wavehh.hanse.de!cracauer From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Subject: Re: Ultimate BSD PC Hardware Setup Message-ID: <1995Sep27.155507.4957@wavehh.hanse.de> Organization: The Internet References: <43df2f$id@future.internexus.net> <MICHAELV.95Sep17014633@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <811439745.10029@kiss.demon.co.uk> <43l0k2$i1a@doright.lbl.gov> <445coa$sd8@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 95 15:55:07 GMT Lines: 28 dan@dna.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu writes: >In <43l0k2$i1a@doright.lbl.gov>, jin@doright.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) writes: >)In article <811439745.10029@kiss.demon.co.uk>, >)Phil Taylor <phil@zipmail.co.uk> wrote: >)>In article <MICHAELV.95Sep17014633@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, >)>michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com says... >)>> >)>>Personally, I'd buy an NCR 53c810-based SCSI card, or a BusLogic, >)>>before I'd ever give money to Adaptec. But, to each his/her own. >)The problem is $255 (Adaptec) vs. $55 (NCR) I guess. BusLogic is OK one but >)cost $240 too. NCR is the best on for both performance and price. I have >>40 of them on our 20 different Pentinum100 - 120 - 133 systems. > Can someone post the brand and source of a good NCR SCSI card ? The Asus SC-200 is one that have proper termination and don't cause problems when used in quantities of more than one (in my machine). Most non-names have termination problems, so at least you have to have active termination on your disk. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de>. No NeXTMail, please. Norderstedt/Hamburg, Germany. Fax +49 40 522 85 36. This is a private address. At (netless) work programming in data analysis.