From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 21 18:10:30 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id SAA22212 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 18:10:30 -0800 Received: from hp.com (hp.com [15.255.152.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA22206 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 18:10:29 -0800 Received: from hpautow.aus.hp.com by hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.14/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA004199003; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 18:10:03 -0800 Message-Id: <199502220210.AA004199003@hp.com> Received: by hpautow.aus.hp.com (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA22770; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 13:09:40 +1100 From: "M.C Wong" Subject: Re: QLogic SCSI controller for FreeBSD? To: gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Justin T. Gibbs) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 13:09:40 EDT Cc: xv01325@powers.phoenix.telecom.com.au, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199502220129.RAA16634@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu>; from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Feb 21, 95 5:29 pm X-Mailer: Elm [revision: 109.14.c] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > >Hello, > > > >I am buying a new PC to run FreeBSD. I have been offered the QLogic > >SCSI controller (VLB) at half the price of an Adaptec 2842. I have > >two questions. > > > >1) Is anyone writing a driver for QLogic? > >2) The salesperson claims that the QLogic controller is compatible with > > Adaptec which if it is true suggests that I may be able to use > > an Adaptec driver. Have you heard of any FreeBSD users doing this > > successfully? > > The Adaptec 2842 (assuming your motherboard is good about VL Busmastering > DMA) is fast, and has reliable support under FreeBSD. The same cannot be > said of the QLogic. Even if it works in an emulation mode, it will not > perform at its best that way. I am interested in more info about Qlogic stuff and its compatibiliy mode with FreeBSD. Is there a URL to Qlogic ? > > > > >Thank you in advance > > > >- steven lee - > > > >PS I think you guys a doing a great job with FreeBSD. I have had a few > > problems with my system but overall I am a very satisfied user. > > Keep up the good work and keep smiling :-) > > -- > Justin T. Gibbs > ============================================== > TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 > Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus > ============================================== >