From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Nov 16 10:30:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA04745 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 10:30:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi) Received: from donaldburr.dyn.ml.org (dburr@209-142-6-187.stk.inreach.net [209.142.6.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA04738; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 10:30:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dburr@POBoxes.com) Received: from localhost (dburr@localhost) by donaldburr.dyn.ml.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA01463; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 10:28:44 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: donaldburr.dyn.ml.org: dburr owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 10:28:39 -0800 (PST) From: Donald Burr X-Sender: dburr@donaldburr.dyn.ml.org To: Shawn Ramsey cc: FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD SCSI Subject: Re: Status of Adaptec AHA-2920? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > I wish to purchase a new SCSI adapter, and the Adaptec AHA-2920 is in my > > price range (I don't have much money to spend). I did a search on the > > You'd be better off getting one of the NCR/Smybios based cards. The 2920 > is not a busmaster card... The Asus SC810 can be had for as little as $60, > of course you need a motherboard that can boot with this card as it has no > BIOS. Hrm, the whole point of my msg was that price is my main factor. I don't particularly care about busmaster, booting off the card, etc. All I'm ever planning to drive with this card is a CD-ROM and a Jaz drive, and I don't particularly care about high performance on these devices (the JAZ is only used for archival storage, and I don't care if it takes 8 seconds vs. 4 to move a .tar.gz file onto it, etc.). I've got (E)IDE HD's in my system that I'm perfectly happy with. Anyway, it's only a 5x86-133. If I ever upgrade to my Pentium II dream system, I'll surely have a bit more cash to play with, so then I'll get the 2940 for performance. Right now I just want something that works. Besides, I have NOT been able to find any NCR/SymBIOS cards. Well, I take that back: I've seen a LOT of cards but I'm not sure what chips they have in them, and when I ask, all I get is "Duuuhhhhh...?" So I guess my original question stands: is the AHA-2920 supported by any version of FreeBSD (or any patch thereof)? And I have another question to add: I know NCR/SymBIOS chips are used in a lot of 3rd-party cards? Can anyone give me a list of which manufacturer/models have the NCR/SymBIOS chip in them? Please respond by e-mail, thanks!!!