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From: graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI problems
Date: 21 Aug 1996 18:25:56 GMT
Organization: his FreeBSD box :-)
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Feisal Mohammed (eefeisal@atlantic.swan.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <4v4dqu$au3@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch wrote:
: >The aic driver (btw., you should have mentioned it, ``Adaptec'' is not
: >specific enough) suffers from enormous bit rot, it hasn't been
: >maintained for ages. Nobody from the active developers seems to be
: >plagued with such a controller.
: [snip]
: Oh boy! I was going to get one also an AVA 1515, because it's cheap and I
: don't want to spend too much money on ISA since I will be moving to PCI
: in < 2 years. My idea was to go SCSI so that I can transfer things to the
: new system easier. The next step up is the AHA 1542 which is almost 2x the
: price of the 1515 here. Does anybody have any suggestions of an alternative
: or have the 1515 been working for them. I will only have one device on the
: 1515 (a tape drive).
if you don't want to boot from disks on that controller you may also get the
ava 1505 - it's the same as the 1515 without the bios and consts about the
half here
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thomas graichen graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de graichen@FreeBSD.org
perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when
there is no longer anything to take away antoine de saint-exupery