Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 10:45:06 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: "Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/Extended Support" <Software@kew.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI SCSI Card dejour? Message-ID: <199805121645.KAA02119@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <355850a9.kew-sonata@sonata.uucp.kew.com> References: <355850a9.kew-sonata@sonata.uucp.kew.com>
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> I am considering picking up a PCI SCSI card, mostly for under NT, but of > course want good FreeBSD stable (actually 2.2.6) support. Primary use > of the card would be Jazz/Zip/CD-ROM Drive. While I would not want to > exclude hooking a SCSI hard drive up to as well, I can't cough up much > extra money for this possible future use. > > What's the SCSI card choice dejour, as noted elsewhere various cards > seem to fall in and out of favor. :-) The NCR cards have been and still continue to be my favorite card. I've never had a lick of trouble with them, and the driver has simply *worked* for the almost 3 years I've used them. In contrast, the newer Adaptec cards have required lots of tweaks (and continue to require them). Even recent email traffic imply that until CAM is in, they will *NOT* be completely stable. (However, they might perform a couple percentage points better than the NCR cards when they are working, but I don't think the instability is worth the performance gain.) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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