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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Recommend a SCSI controller? Date: 21 Jul 1996 22:03:36 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4su9fo$1m8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960721100733.21155B-100000@manhattan.mdl.sandia.gov> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E CHaley <chaley@manhattan.mdl.sandia.gov> wrote: > After reading an article in some magazine > about how IDE works, i would like to get as far away from it as possible. :-))) Well, that's the first message of this kind i ever read! > Could anyone suggest a good SCSI controller to use under a pure BSD system? You forgot to mention your bus system. For PCI, the Adaptecs work fine (AHA-2940), but they are not exactly what i'd call cheap. If your board supports the NCR BIOS (or SYMBIOS), the cheap NCR 53c810 (or the slightly more expensive 53c825) are recommendable. They are usually less than US$ 100, and you can get about the same performance out of them as with an AHA-2940. ASUS boards are known to support the NCR BIOS, but there are rumours that many more boards do (but unlike ASUS, they don't announce this feature anywhere). For ISA, the AHA-1540 family provides a rock-solid interface. For EISA, i've been working many years with a BusLogic Bt742A, and the AHA-2740's are also fine (they even provide two SCSI busses). Sorry, i don't have a clue about VLB. ;) -- 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. ;-)