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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!kiss.demon.co.uk From: phil@zipmail.co.uk (Phil Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: URGENT. PLEASE HELP with SCSI-controller-buy-decision Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 11:48:04 GMT Organization: Lan Systems Lines: 75 Message-ID: <812720883.10493@kiss.demon.co.uk> References: <44mlok$1jb@news.rz.uni-passau.de> <44pb1g$pc0@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> <MICHAELV.95Oct2204518@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> Reply-To: phil@zipmail.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: kiss.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: kiss.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:7041 comp.unix.bsd.misc:260 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5733 comp.os.386bsd.questions:17628 comp.unix.bsd:16724 michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) wrote: >In article <44pb1g$pc0@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) writes: > In article <44mlok$1jb@news.rz.uni-passau.de>, 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 > 2) Adaptec doesn't provide device writers > with as much information as they used > to, but since FTP.CDROM.COM is now > running on 3 AH2940s, I guess they > should be considered well supported :) >Until Adaptec changes the hardware and breaks all the drivers. > 3) The BusLogic BT946C offers less > performance than either the NCR or > the Adaptec. >I haven't seen any benchmarks that prove the BusLogic significantly >slower than the others. It may be slower in some operations, but >probably not enough that you'd ever be able to tell just by watching >it run. >The BusLogics have the added benefit that they're probably always >going to be well supported because 1) there's a large installed base >of them, 2) the company is very open, 3) they're already well >documented, even if BusLogic went out of business next week. > If you can afford it, buy the Adaptec and > relax, because you bought a well supported > high quality product ... >DON'T buy Adaptec. The product is well made. The company sucks. And >they're free-unix hostile. Here we go again, I can only talk of my experience of Adaptec which. in the years that I have used their products has been EXCELLENT. As I do not write free-un*x device drivers I cannot comment on that point but only six months ago I called Adaptec Tech Support in the US (I am in the UK) regarding a problem with an old 1542B, we found the problem to be in the BIOS rev and they sent me BOTH replacement PROM's and the card manual (including international FedEX carriage) F.O.C. Within a couple of days I had installed the PROM's and the customer was back up and running, it is that sort of support (and the performance) that causes me to choose Adaptec every time... Lets face it though Michael, neither of us are going to change each others views which are both based on years of experience with specific products, but you are beginning to sound a bit like a Doom and Gloom merchant. The end is Nigh, Adaptec is the anti-christ :-) >Buy the NCR or the BusLogic. I think either will give you good >results. Personally, if it were my money, it would be a BusLogic. >Of course this is all my opinion, but I think I have good, >well-researched reasons for believing what I believe. >-- >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com > --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- > NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4, > DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532 > NetBSD ports in progress: VAX, Atari 68k, others... >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -