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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI problems
Date: 23 Aug 1996 21:23:07 GMT
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eefeisal@atlantic.swan.ac.uk (Feisal Mohammed) wrote:

> 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.

No chance to buy a *used* AHA1540 from somebody who moved to PCI
recently?  My scratch box even runs with an AHA1540A, and this once
was a gift to me.  (However, i'm afraid not all firmware rev's of the
`A' version will do it, they need to support scatter/gather
transfers.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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