From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 18 01:21:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA06749 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:21:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [207.67.172.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA06734 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:21:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id BAA00409 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:19:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:19:33 -0800 (PST) From: Shawn Ramsey cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of Adaptec AHA-2920? In-Reply-To: <199711180316.WAA16962@flash-gordon.haven.boston.ma.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > According to Donald Burr: > > Besides, I have NOT been able to find any NCR/SymBIOS cards. Well, I take > > that back: I've seen a LOT of cards but I'm not sure what chips they have > > in them, and when I ask, all I get is "Duuuhhhhh...?" > > > > You're right, back when I was looking for a PCI SCSI card for my FreeBSD box, > I hard a lot of trouble finding a card that I could be sure actually an > NCR/SymBIOS chipset. I finally settled on a Promise controller > (http://www.promise.com). They've got two (used to be three) controllers, > a fast SCSI and a fast/wide/ultra controller. Seems to work pretty well (I > haven't really been the system as much as I should :-). The Diamond Fireport 40 is fairly easy to find... around $169 for a UW card isnt bad. Adaptec's at the local shops go for around $230. Another local place has the Asus SC875(same chip as Diamond) for $135. (AJR Technologies, www.ajr.com)