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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


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