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On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Stephen McKay wrote:

> The ncrcontrol program is a selling point.  I know of no equivalent for
> the Adaptec controllers.

  Most of these functions are handled by the Adaptec BIOS control panel
system, and more.  It can also do low-level verifies, and formats.

  About the only things you can't do on the Adaptec, are the performance
monitoring, and setting tag use per device.

Tom