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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI Stuffs
Date: 15 Jun 1996 19:13:23 GMT
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scilailf@leonis.nus.sg (Lai L F) wrote:

> Which is the more reliable SCSI adaptor, harddisk, CD Rom that I should 
> get for my FreeBSD system?

`more' is comparative.  You need to provide a base to compare
against. :)

Pick any bus-master SCSI controller.  For a new PCI machine, the
Adaptec 2940's are a good choice, or the NCR-based cheap controllers.
The latter require a board with an appropriate BIOS support however if
you wanna boot from this controller, so about the only choice is an
ASUS mainboard.

I think the only harddisk that has been reported as crappy recently is
the Quantum Grand Prix.  David Greenman reported a 70 % loss rate
within the first few months when they were using it at
wcarchive.cdrom.com.

You can pick virtually any SCSI CD-ROM.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)