From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 13 17:44:42 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 C548237BE51 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 17:44:38 -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 e5E0iau05412; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 19:44:37 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA96877; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 19:44:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200006140044.TAA96877@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Shawn Ramsey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: low-cost SCSI cards?? In-Reply-To: Message from Shawn Ramsey of "Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:54:22 PDT." <20000613165422.G91833@luke.cpl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 19:44:34 -0500 From: David Kelly Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Shawn Ramsey writes: > > > > > > > > Suggestions, please! > > > > > > 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. > > We have used many of the Tekram cards, and the work great. The Symbios > cards also work well, and are cheaper. But good luck finding one. Do es > anyone have a source for these? I've misplaced the link to only place we > ever bought one from. It was a UW for like $60, which is hard to beat. http://www.centrix-intl.com/ has a Symbios 8251S using the '825 chipset (UWSCSI) for a budget busting $39. They used to have the single ended SYM8751SP for $59 but have apparently sold out and only have the differential version now. -- 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