From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 16 17:22:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA27571 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 17:22:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from quark.ChrisBowman.com (207-172-239-183.s56.as7.rkv.erols.com [207.172.239.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA27381 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 17:21:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) Received: from localhost (crb@localhost) by quark.ChrisBowman.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA00732; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:23:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) X-Authentication-Warning: quark.ChrisBowman.com: crb owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:23:23 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher R. Bowman" To: Alfred Perlstein cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: supported SCSI cards? In-Reply-To: <00e201bd3b0f$5b08e620$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >Well after Jordan laughed at me on IRC about my SCSI+SB16 i decided i should >get a real scsi card, amazingly the prices on adaptec 2940UW's are REALLY >low, (well for scsi) however some people were telling me to go with NCR as i >could save myself about 50$ (adaptec is 150+shipping/tax, while NCR is about >100$) > >Well i was looking in the LINT kernel and there is no mention of specific >chipsets or anything, can anyone recommend a NCR card that works well with >FreeBSD and is on par with the adaptec 2940UW? (pci of course) > >thank you, >-Alfred > >btw, i LOVE 3.0, just did the upgrade last night, it's great i woulda never >known it would go so smoothly. I don't know of "on par with the adaptec 2940UW" but the SYM 53c875 is the "NCR" chip (actually symbios logic as NCR doesn't make these chips any more) that is roughly equivalent to the adaptec part. I have a Tekram 390F with this chip on board that has worked flawlessly for me for abaout a year now. This is supported by FreeBSD and just works. I haven't used the adaptecs, so I can't compare, but I have no complaints. about $125 from www.cmpexpress.com --------- Christopher R. Bowman crb@ChrisBowman.com My home page To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message