From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Nov 17 19:16:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA10463 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 19:16:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi) Received: from flash-gordon.haven.boston.ma.us (flash-gordon.haven.boston.ma.us [192.251.193.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA10454; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 19:16:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from benji@haven.boston.ma.us) Received: (benji@localhost) by flash-gordon.haven.boston.ma.us (8.7.5/Haven-2.23M) id WAA16962; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 22:16:12 -0500 (EST) From: behind brown eyes Message-Id: <199711180316.WAA16962@flash-gordon.haven.boston.ma.us> Subject: Re: Status of Adaptec AHA-2920? To: dburr@POBoxes.com (Donald Burr) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 22:16:12 -0500 (EST) Cc: shawn@luke.cpl.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Donald Burr" at Nov 16, 97 10:28:39 am Organization: Where the Wild Things Are X-Personal-Deity: Dionysus X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Donald Burr: > Besides, I have NOT been able to find any NCR/SymBIOS cards. Well, I take > that back: I've seen a LOT of cards but I'm not sure what chips they have > in them, and when I ask, all I get is "Duuuhhhhh...?" > You're right, back when I was looking for a PCI SCSI card for my FreeBSD box, I hard a lot of trouble finding a card that I could be sure actually an NCR/SymBIOS chipset. I finally settled on a Promise controller (http://www.promise.com). They've got two (used to be three) controllers, a fast SCSI and a fast/wide/ultra controller. Seems to work pretty well (I haven't really been the system as much as I should :-). benji -- Benjamin R. Cline Large Furry Mammal benji@haven.boston.ma.us "As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life -- so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls." -- Matt Cartmill