From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 19 08:05:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA13530 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:05:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA13525 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:05:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA11863 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:02:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:02:17 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199811191602.IAA11863@pau-amma.whistle.com> Subject: Re: SCSI Adapters Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199811190128.TAA02696@n4hhe.ampr.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: David Kelly >Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 19:28:53 -0600 >Possibly the biggest difference between my Adaptec 2940 and Asus SC875 >is the Adaptec has low level format and surface scanning utilities >built into its BIOS, where the Symbios based card requires DOS-based >uitilities to do the same. Ah; that is useful information, since it means that as far as I'm concerned, the Symbios cards are utterly worthless. >Am told Tekram's Symbios cards have these utilities in their BIOS. Also good to know, for a related reason. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message