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On 5/2/98 5:39 AM, Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) said:

>I personally don't like Adaptec monopolizing the SCSI chip business.

Me either.

Fortunately there are other chips around but unfortunately not too many 
people use them.  AMD has a family of SCSI chips.  (The Am79C974 is a 
combination Ethernet and SCSI-2 PCI chip that one of our customers is 
looking at for a custom board design.)  I thought that CMD and Motorola 
also made some SCSI chips, but I may be mistaken.  There are probably 
others.

I suspect that if Adaptec prices their chips too high, the lower-end 
PCI-card vendors will simply switch to someone else's chips to keep their 
costs down, and it'll also give a lot of incentive to other chip makers 
to get into the SCSI-chip business.


    -- Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>


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