Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:34:48 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: low-cost SCSI cards?? Message-ID: <200006132334.SAA96351@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com> of "Tue, 13 Jun 2000 15:07:38 PDT." <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006131504030.24754-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
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Rick Hamell writes: > > Symbios '875 based cards (UW, PCI) were about $60 last time I looked. > > The interesting Tekram cards are Symbios based. I have been happy with > > an Asus SC875 (about $110 last time I looked) and a genuine Symbios > > card of forgotten model ($60). > > The Asus's are very good card. The only downside is a lack of > drive availabitly for Windows 98! :) (First time I've ever said that!) And > the 95 drive will not work under 98... simple enough fix though, slapped > it into one of my servers. :) Oh, and last I heard they were out of > productions. But the Tekram cards are as good. Who cares about stinking Windows on this list? :-) With that said, I don't spend much time *looking* thru MS CDROMs but every time I have there was a functional Symbios driver. The Asus SC875 is electrically exactly the same thing as the Symbios branded-cards. Uses exactly the same BIOS without one shred of Asus customization. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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