Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 12:03:00 -0600 (MDT) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> To: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Support for Symbios vs. Adaptect SCSI Message-ID: <199905281803.MAA07001@narnia.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <199905280119.PAA24186@pegasus.com>
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In article <199905280119.PAA24186@pegasus.com> you wrote: > } > In general, the PCI interface on the Adaptec chips is unsurpassed > } > in the industry. > } ... > } > } This is very helpful information. It does make it clear that Adaptec > } makes sense at the high end. You get what you pay for, etc... > > I've seen test reports in the past that place the Symbios controllers > at a slight speed *advantage* over Adaptec. (Sorry no references, too > long ago.) The FreeBSD Adaptec driver is known to vastly out perform the Adaptec NT driver. This is mostly because adaptec uses a fairly complex abstraction layer for the hardware that all OS drivers are written to. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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