From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 27 17:52:05 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA02065 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 17:52:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA02010 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 17:52:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA00407; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 12:28:46 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512280158.MAA00407@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Recommendations for SCSI card? To: craigs@venus.os.com (Craig Shrimpton) Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 12:28:46 +1030 (CST) Cc: JSINNOTT@POMONA.EDU, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Craig Shrimpton" at Dec 25, 95 07:14:17 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Craig Shrimpton stands accused of saying: > >>a SCSI card for my PCI and ISA Pentium? I was ng if anyone had any >>particularly positive or negative experiences with a brand. Obviously I want >>FreeBSD to support the card. :) Thanks > > Take a look at the Buslogic 946C. It is a very good PCI busmaster. Bollocks, and a complete waste of money. Spend less than $100 on an NCR 53C810-based SCSI controller, and treat yourself to a nice dinner on the change. The NCR chips are troopers, and perform just as well. > -Craig -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[