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From: J.C.Highfield@lut.ac.uk
Subject: Re: URGENT. PLEASE HELP with SCSI-controller-buy-decision
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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 21:21:02 GMT
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moos@fmi.uni-passau.de (Darius Moos) writes:
>I want to buy a new FAST-SCSI-2-PCI-controller in the next days and i'm not
>sure which one to get. I'm running FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 and want to upgrade to 2.1
>when it is released. I have an ADAPTEC-1542C and i never had problems with it,
>so i thought of getting the ADAPTEC-2940, BUT in the last days there was a
>discussion about SCSI-controller (ADAPTEC/BUSLOGIC/NCR) and now i really don't
>know which one to get. The controller should be supported in the future (NCR
>is leaving the PC-market), it should be supported by FreeBSD (read horror-
Are you sure you don't mean AT&T is leaving the PC market? I'm sure the
controller line (and the chips etc.) were sold to Symbios (www.symbios.com).
Personally I like the price and performance of the NCR controllers.
>stories about developers (of FreeBSD) and ADAPTEC), should NOT have any
>problems with specific harddisks (heard of problems BUSLOGIC has with some
>harddisks) and should have good performance.
It sounds like you're looking for perfection, which is hard to find ;-)
Regards,
Julian.