From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 27 20:16:59 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA11397 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 20:16:59 -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 UAA11392 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 20:16:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA01022; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 14:53:24 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512280423.OAA01022@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Recommendations for SCSI card? To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 14:53:24 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, craigs@venus.os.com, JSINNOTT@POMONA.EDU, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Dec 27, 95 07:43:24 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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." [[