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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!informatik.uni-bremen.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4pv20j$84e@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4pr4qq$j6f@nuscc.nus.sg> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E 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. ;-)