From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 27 20:46:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA12768 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 20:46:20 -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 UAA12762 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 20:46:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA01138; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 15:23:12 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512280453.PAA01138@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Recommendations for SCSI card? To: craigs@venus.os.com (Craig Shrimpton) Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 15:23:12 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, JSINNOTT@POMONA.EDU, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Craig Shrimpton" at Dec 27, 95 11:35:13 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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." [[