Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 15:23:12 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: craigs@venus.os.com (Craig Shrimpton) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, JSINNOTT@POMONA.EDU, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommendations for SCSI card? Message-ID: <199512280453.PAA01138@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951227233132.29487B-100000@venus.os.com> from "Craig Shrimpton" at Dec 27, 95 11:35:13 pm
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Craig Shrimpton stands accused of saying: > > 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. > > Well, you can get the 946 from Sparco for $194.00. Hardly an issue after > spending zillions on 128 MB of RAM. The ASUS card is great, if you > happen own an ASUS. Unless the board has the NCR bios you can't boot a > drive with the ASUS card. Funny, we only have one of them in an ASUS board; the rest are in a variety of J-random Triton PCI motherboards, mostly Soyo and Expert (the Expert boards are crap, but they're relatively cheap). All of these have the NCR bios; in fact, I haven't met a PCI motherboard on sale here yet that doesn't. YMMV. > -Craig -- ]] 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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