From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 13 16:49:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E73137BEC2 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:49:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt6-216-180-4-34.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.4.34]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0.Beta3/8.11.0.Beta1) with ESMTP id e5DNndu04193; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:49:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA96351; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:34:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200006132334.SAA96351@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Rick Hamell Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: low-cost SCSI cards?? In-reply-to: Message from Rick Hamell of "Tue, 13 Jun 2000 15:07:38 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:34:48 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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