From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 18 14:24:19 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA19326 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 14:24:19 -0700 Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA19320 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 14:24:15 -0700 Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA28875; Tue, 18 Apr 95 21:23:44 GMT Received: from junco.fsl.noaa.gov by yarmouth.fsl.noaa.gov (1.37.109.16/SMI-4.1 (1.37.109.16)) id AA021800191; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 21:23:11 GMT Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 21:23:11 GMT From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Message-Id: <199504182123.AA021800191@yarmouth.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by junco.fsl.noaa.gov (1.37.109.16/SMI-4.1 (1.37.109.16)) id AA003410232; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 15:23:52 -0600 To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, tom@haven.uniserve.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504181836.LAA13296@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> (rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com) Subject: Re: Buslogic? Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Rodney" == Rodney W Grimes writes: Rodney> A ``good'' 486 PCI motherboard is the ASUS PCI/I-486SP3G, Rodney> it has a built in NCR810 controller. Does anyone know why Paul Vixie (you listening, Paul?) can't recommend the NCR-based SCSI controller? Better questions: what are the disadvantages of the NCR810? -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA TASK: Shoot yourself in the foot. In FORTRAN: You shoot yourself in each toe, iteratively, until you run out of toes, then you read in the next foot and repeat. If you run out of bullets, you continue with the attempts to shoot yourself anyways because you have no exception-handling capability.