Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 14:53:24 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, craigs@venus.os.com, JSINNOTT@POMONA.EDU, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommendations for SCSI card? Message-ID: <199512280423.OAA01022@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951227194212.209B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Dec 27, 95 07:43:24 pm
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Doug White stands accused of saying: > > On Thu, 28 Dec 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > > > 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. > > I'm trying to find one of these fabled controllers. I don't see anything > by NCR. Are they hidden in someone else's products? Lots of people use them; we buy the ASUS SC-200's because that's what we can get, and because they supply active terminators onboard. (Passive termination makes no sense in a fast SCSI-2 environment) > Doug White | University of Oregon -- ]] 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." [[
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