From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 12 17:28:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05648 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 17:28:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from coal.sentex.ca (coal.sentex.ca [209.112.4.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05628 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 17:28:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from gravel (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by coal.sentex.ca (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA08992; Tue, 12 May 1998 20:28:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980512203103.017cd540@sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 20:31:03 -0400 To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: PCI SCSI Card dejour? Cc: Software@kew.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <199805121419.KAA10873@granite.sentex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id RAA05637 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk At 07:47 PM 5/12/98 +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: >Mike D Tancsa writes: >> > What's the SCSI card choice dejour, as noted elsewhere various cards >> > seem to fall in and out of favor. :-) >> I have had good experiences with the ASUS 875. I dont recall any BIOS/REV >> silliness with them either. > >ASUS SCSI controllers use NCR¹ chipsets which are generally very well >supported under FreeBSD. But the SC875 is a RAID controller, which is >probably overkill; a normal user should be happy enough with an SC200. I think its a mistake on ASUS' web site, as I have several of these cards and they are merly Ultra/Wide SCSI controllers... Definitly not RAID. Here in Canada the price difference is pretty minimal (about $25 Canadian) between the 200s and the 875s ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) * To do is to be -- Nietzsche Sentex Communications Corp, * To be is to do -- Sartre Cambridge, Ontario * Do be do be do -- Sinatra (http://www.sentex.net/~mdtancsa) * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message