Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 20:06:58 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recomended ISA SCSI Cards Message-ID: <199804210106.UAA04700@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "Gregory P. Smith" <greg@nas.nasa.gov> of "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:26:26 PDT." <199804201726.KAA01852@ryouko.nas.nasa.gov>
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"Gregory P. Smith" writes: > > Real recommendation: get a PCI motherboard, they're cheap. Seconded. A new Adaptec 1542 will demand about $125, used at $50 to $75. A new Symbios '810 PCI SCSI card is about $60. If your MB is old enough that it only has ISA then purchasing another ISA SCSI card is throwing good money after bad. Even if its only to drive a single Zip drive. Quality Asus MB's can be had for $140. Haven't been shopping so I only recal a price I saw at a recent "computer show". There was no mention as to what other SCSI devices were on the MB? Years ago I had a 486/33 that started acting funny with NE2100 ethernet cards (bus master, and picky at that). Put a cheap NE2000 in it when I added a 1542 as the NE2100 wouldn't tolerate another bus master. About 6 months later had to pull the 1542 also because the MB simply would no longer do bus mastering reliably. Initially thought it was my HD's, but they worked perfectly in another machine with the same 1542. Tried 3 different 1542's, all worked in other systems before and after the experiment. MB has been happily crunching along the past couple of years. Happily as long as it doesn't have a bus master ISA card in it. So while you are swearing at the 1542, it might not be the 1542 at all. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.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-hardware" in the body of the message
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