From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Feb 12 19:00:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA25267 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 19:00:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA25261 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 19:00:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA08359; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 13:30:41 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199602130300.NAA08359@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Looking for a good motherboard vendor To: gwh@spiders.com (Gene W Homicki) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 13:30:40 +1030 (CST) Cc: andreas@knobel.gun.de, jeff@jthome.com, hardware@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199602130040.TAA25675@charlotte.spiders.com> from "Gene W Homicki" at Feb 12, 96 07:40:05 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gene W Homicki stands accused of saying: > > I am putting another system together that will be running 2.1. Anyone > have any recommendations on FAST WIDE SCSI-II PCI cards? Buslogic or > Adaptec? I'm looking for stability first, performance a close second > in importance. Presuming you're willing to upgrade to -stable, the Adaptec 2940UW is probably the hot pick. Alternatively, anything based on the NCR 83C825 is a winner. Anything from Buslogic is a very poor third. > Gene W. Homicki gwh@spiders.com -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "I seek PEZ!" - The Tick [[