From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 10 04:55:50 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA20719 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 04:55:50 -0800 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA20713 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 04:55:44 -0800 Received: from late5.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (late5.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de [131.188.254.132]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id EAA18659 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 04:55:35 -0800 Received: (from eilts@localhost) by late5.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA22795; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 13:52:50 +0100 From: Hinrich Eilts Message-Id: <199511101252.NAA22795@late5.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de> Subject: Re: SCSI card recomendation needed To: laufen@sol.med.ge.com (Derek Laufenberg x7-4534) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 13:52:50 +0100 (MEZ) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9511091958.AA04997@merak.med.ge.com> from "Derek Laufenberg x7-4534" at Nov 9, 95 01:58:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 981 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > Hello all, > > I tried to put FreeBSD on a friends machine lastnight and I ran > into a bit of a snag. His machine is 100% scsi, no IDE system > at all. His scsi card is a Q-Logic card which is not supported > as far as I can tell. He is willing to put a new card in it. > What should he buy? > > Any recommendations for : > > ISA: ??? Buy a new PCI board with NCR-based SCSI (already on motherboard or with an additional card). ISA adapter (from Adaptec) are quite expensive. > VLB: ??? I use a Buslogic 445S, but it is expensive. A new PCI board with NCR adapter may be an alternative. > PCI: ??? NCR-based, they are inexpensive and fast. Some motherbord have BIOS support already included. Hinrich -- Hinrich Eilts Uni: eilts@late.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de | G i b D O S | Priv.: eilts@tor.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de | k e i n e | http://late5.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de/user/eilts.html | C h a n c e ! |