From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Sep 16 01:08:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA05855 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 01:08:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from murkwood.gaffaneys.com (dialup2.gaffaneys.com [208.155.161.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA05836 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 01:08:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from zach@localhost) by murkwood.gaffaneys.com (8.8.7/8.8.6) id DAA10216; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 03:09:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Zach Heilig Message-ID: <19970916030907.64550@gaffaneys.com> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 03:09:07 -0500 To: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: PCI Advansys controller... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk There is a place in town that has a couple of PCI AdvanSys cards it wants to get rid of. I happen to be in the market for a couple PCI scsi cards. The salesman pointed me to a file on the AdvanSys ftp server (ftp://ftp.advansys.com/pub/freebsd/freebsd.txt, dated 1/16/97) that noted ISA support was supposed to be done and PCI support was near completion. And, are these cards junk? (the ones he wants to sell are 930AU, I think). Which version of FreeBSD has this? It must be -current, since a grep of LINT doesn't show any matches for advansys in 2.2-stable. This same store has two Symbios 53c875 based cards on back-order for me, but they would cancel that order, if I got those AdvanSys cards. How good of trade would that be (the Advansys cards are about half the price of the Symbios cards, $80 vs. $150). I know the Symbios chip has the scripts memory, and can offload some of the work from the host CPU, but exactly how much of a win is that? Thanks for any anwser. -- Zach Heilig