From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 15 17:15:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA27923 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 17:15:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA27917 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 17:15:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id SAA13554; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 18:13:28 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199708160013.SAA13554@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: looking for cheap scsi card recommendations To: softweyr@xmission.com (Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 18:13:21 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199708151819.MAA12578@xmission.xmission.com> from "Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC" at Aug 15, 97 12:19:23 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I recently aquired a gig SCSI drive...and am looking for a cheap SCSI > controller with a BIOS to drive it. I have an Adaptec 1535- not bad, but > I can't use it to boot the drive. I also just discovered that Diamond MultiMedia is now making two SCSI cards based on NCR chips. The FirePort 20 is (apparently) based on the 825 chip, has Flash BIOS on-board, and lists for $99.95; the FirePort 40 is based on the 875 chip and lists for $199.95. See: http://www.diamondmm.com/products/ -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com