From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Oct 31 09:23:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA22175 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:23:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA22134 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:22:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id SAA02492; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 18:21:33 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA00283; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 18:21:32 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id SAA15551; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 18:00:46 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610311700.SAA15551@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD support for Adaptec/Buslogic drivers To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD SCSI list) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 18:00:46 +0100 (MET) Cc: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Warner Losh at "Oct 30, 96 10:28:30 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Warner Losh wrote: > Basically, I'm looking for a cheap, supported SCSI card that isn't the > Adaptech 1522A for a friend. The above cards were in the computer > shopper as being < $180, and I was wondering which is the most > stable. The Adaptech 1542CF looks great, but is just out of reach at > $199 and up :-(. AHA1540A One would think you can get'em cheap these days. ;-) Unless you've got too old firmware (no scatter/gather), even these old parts work fine. The one in my scratch box is 7 years old now. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)