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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI card
Date: 09 Sep 1996 16:08:27 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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Message-ID: <MICHAELV.96Sep9090827@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
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In-reply-to: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk's message of 5 Sep 1996 17:22:28 +0100

In article <50muo4$a1@anorak.coverform.lan> brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes:

   David Zakai (zakaid99@hscbklyn.edu) wrote:

   : 1.  Are there still significant incompatibilities when using
   :     a PCI-based card (like Adaptec AHA-2940 or AHA-2920) instead
   :     of ISA-based cards like Adaptec AVA-1522B ?

   I've just put my SCSI disks on a 2940W (instead of a 1542B).  I'm
   getting occasional problems w/ the disks - nothing that a SCSI reset
   doesn't cure (the OS sends this after a bit of "disk timed out"
   complaining).  I suspect that I'm just trying to drive the disks too
   fast, so I can't really complain about the OS itself.

Doubtful, unless you have _really old_ drives.  It sounds more like
you have marginal cabling and/or termination.

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  Michael L. VanLoon                           michaelv@MindBender.serv.net

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