From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 13 22:21:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA28754 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:21:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA28742 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:21:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01427; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:20:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:20:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Rick Knebel cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, caldera-users@rim.caldera.com Subject: Re: scsi In-Reply-To: <19980912133238.C211@csrlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > I am looking to add some scsi drives to my home computer and am a little > confused with the terminology. > > What would be the best adapter to get for a home computer. > > Fast scsci, Ultra scsi, Ultra Wide scsi. For a home machine, Fast or Ultra SCSI-2 (aka Narrow SCSI) is probably okay. I'm spoiled and have a machine that came with an onboard UltraWide controller, so I try for UltraWide SCSI (aka SCSI-3), but those drives are more expensive. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message