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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!sprint!news-dc-26.sprintlink.net!news-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-atl-21.sprintlink.net!news.us.net!news.freedomnet.com!not-for-mail From: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@freedomnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Ultra Wide Scsi - which controller? Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 13:01:34 -0400 Organization: FreedomNet Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3356576E.C6E83BD2@freedomnet.com> References: <5j5gla$r88$1@csnews.cs.colorado.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tech.freedomnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b3 [en] (Win95; I) To: Alan T Krantz <atk@alumni.cs.Colorado.EDU> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39354 Alan T Krantz wrote: > > Is there a particular ultra-wide scsi controller that is recommended either > because of price or performance (please mention which) for FreeBSD? > > Does NCR make a ulti-wide scsi (model??) and does it perform well under > FreeBSD (asus doesn't seem to sell one)? > > This is for a friend who is getting a new system and wants one of the > new 7200rpm drives... > > Thanks, > Alan Krantz We've been running for over a year now with an Adaptec PCI UltraWide SCSI control (AHA-2940) under FreeBSD 2.x (we've upgraded that system several times) and BSDI 2.0. Currently we have one system running as a news server running FreeBSD 2.1.7, the Adaptec UltraWide SCSI card, and 3 7200rpm SCSI fast&wide hard drives with no problem. If you are just planning on running a single 7200rpm drive, though, the Adaptec card is probably overkill...it'll transfer at up yo 40M/s; even a Barracuda won't spit data out at more than 8M/s. Kelly ~kbyanc@freedomnet.com~