Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 12:27:58 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> Cc: Chris Dillon <cdillon@tri-lakes.net>, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice on new SCSI hardware Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971123122301.687A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <19971123004701.18502@mi.uni-koeln.de>
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On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Stefan Esser wrote: > On 1997-11-19 23:05 -0800, Tom <tom@sdf.com> wrote: > > Tekram? Why? All the tekram controllers I know are dogs. > > What do you mean by that ? I was speaking of the old Tekram cards (ie non-PCI). > > A NCR875 based card (like the Diamand Fireport 40) are pretty cheap, and > > fast. The Adaptec 2940 series performs a bit better handling lots of > > requests, but is kinda of expensive. However, some motherboards come with > > aic7880 (Adaptec) UW controller on the motherboard, for way less. > > The on-board SCSI chips have the advantage, that they > don't require a valuable PCI slot. But in fact they > are often more expensive than a standard motherboard > and a seperate NCR/Symbios SCSI card, which can be Really? I don't find this at all, with the motherboards with builin aic7880 chips. Very cheap generallly (like the ASUS P55T2P4S, or the new ASUS P2L97-S). > moved into your next system, while the on-board chip > can't ... I don't know about you, but any old motherboard gets up getting used somewhere else, around here, so the fact the SCSI is builtin is not an issue. > I never regetted buying an ASUS SP3G with an on-board > ncr53c810 controller some 3 years ago ... I have one of those too. > Regards, STefan > > Tom
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