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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
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: 03 Oct 1995 03:45:18 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE's message of 2 Oct 1995 18:29:04 GMT
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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.
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.
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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...
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