From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 15 21:22:12 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA28257 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 21:22:12 -0700 Received: from gold.interlog.com (gold.interlog.com [198.53.145.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA28252 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 21:21:55 -0700 Received: from lotbiniere.interlog.com (lotbiniere.interlog.com [198.53.146.76]) by gold.interlog.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id AAA21471; Sat, 16 Sep 1995 00:21:52 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lotbiniere.interlog.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA14678; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 23:48:45 -0400 Message-Id: <199509160348.XAA14678@lotbiniere.interlog.com> X-Authentication-Warning: lotbiniere.interlog.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Larry Dolinar" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Future Domain and Tekram controllers In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 1995 12:06:13." <41B0D641693@bldg1.croute.com> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 23:48:44 -0400 From: Michel Joly de Lotbiniere Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Larry, The FutureDomain card you mentioned in your post to questions@freebsd.org is a non-busmastering type SCSI controller; you'll be sacrificing some of the efficiencies of SCSI since I/O transfers will require the attention of the OS, not merely the setting-up & results. People constantly say that the best inexpensive PCI SCSI busmastering cards are those using the NCR 53C810 (or whatever the part number is), but even there, your're best advised to buy an original NCR card: Symbios Logic PCI Host Bus Adapter SYM8150S (with BIOS) or SYM8100S (without BIOS, for MBs with the SDMS bios) NCR Microelectronics is now independant: Symbios Logic 1-800-334-5454 ========================= Michel Joly de Lotbiniere mjdl@interlog.com =========================