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#! rnews 1685 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.Exabyte.COM!Exabyte.COM!usenet From: Peter Bartlett <bartlett@exabyte.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: NCR/Symbios PCI SCSI Cards: Where to buy? Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 14:30:59 -0600 Organization: Exabyte Corporation Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3239C483.41C67EA6@exabyte.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gigan.exabyte.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) I'm upgrading my system from an old 486DX33 to a PCI P133, and it's time to toss my AHA1542CF SCSI controller in favor of a PCI card. Problem is the AHA2940 is ridiculously expensive. Does anybody out there know a good source for the inexpensive PCI SCSI cards from Symbios/NCR that I keep hearing about? I mean the version with the SCSI BIOS on the card, not on the motherboard. I guess it would probably have a 53C815 on it, instead of the 53C810 (no BIOS support). I'm also ditching NetBSD in favor of FreeBSD at the same time, so I need something that is likely to work with FreeBSD. Believe it or not, I actually designed most of the SCSI logic in the 53Cxxx series chips back when I worked for NCR. Now I can't even get a card with one on it! A URL or phone number would be appreciated. --- Peter Bartlett bartlett@exabyte.com