Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 20:31:03 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Cc: Software@kew.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI SCSI Card dejour? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980512203103.017cd540@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <xzphg2v7556.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> References: <Mike D Tancsa's message of "Tue, 12 May 1998 10:19:29 -0400 (EDT)"> <199805121419.KAA10873@granite.sentex.net>
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At 07:47 PM 5/12/98 +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: >Mike D Tancsa <mdtancsa@sentex.net> 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
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