Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 18:06:45 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Andrew Reilly <A.Reilly@lake.com.au> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, rivers@dignus.com (Thomas David Rivers), dkelly@hiwaay.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ASUS P2B-S and FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <199911180006.SAA21470@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Andrew Reilly <A.Reilly@lake.com.au> of "Wed, 17 Nov 1999 16:44:32 %2B1100." <99111716482700.39935@gurney.reilly.home>
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Andrew Reilly writes: > > Fair enough. I didn't realise that an extra-card '875 would be cheaper > than the on-board Adaptec. I'm onto my second built-in-Adaptec motherboard > (first iwill, now gigabyte), and they've both worked like champs. I > remember them being less expensive than the equivelant board+Adaptec card, > but probably didn't compare them to the '875 for price. My Asus P2B-S MB was about $325, or roughly the price of a functionally similar Adaptec 2940U2W. Asus includes an U2W cable with LVD terminator, a plain wide SCSI cable, narrow SCSI cable, and another for wide external connection. So for $200 over a plain P2B-F its a good value, but not a huge bargain. Then after chosing onboard Adaptec SCSI I bought a separate Intel Etherexpess 10/100 NIC rather than buy one on the Asus MB. Just no accounting for what us consumers will do.... :-) Actually was concerned with a volage differential in the building on the ethernet wires messing up my MB, so I bought a "disposable" PCI card that will hopefully isolate anything from the other components. I tend to favor keeping my tape and CD-R drives on a separate SCSI bus from the HD's. Its time to buy another '875 card. This vendor lists Symbios brand PCI cards for $65, any good or bad feedback? http://www.centrix-intl.com/ -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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