From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 6 17:55:43 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id RAA27512 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 17:55:43 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA27506 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 17:55:41 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA21937; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 10:51:56 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199508070121.KAA21937@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Future Domain TMC-1680SVP Fast SCSI-2 To: xxnguyen@utacnvx.uta.edu (Mr. TR Nguyen) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 10:51:56 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199508061942.OAA07883@utacnvx.uta.edu> from "Mr. TR Nguyen" at Aug 6, 95 02:42:34 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1187 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Mr. TR Nguyen stands accused of saying: > Just saw a Future Domain TMC 1680SVP at my local Incredible Universe > priced at $110.00. the FreeBSD README/RELeaseNOTes only mention the > 8xx and 95x series, and I'm wondering what you guys think of this particular > card. I'm seriously considering adding SCSI HDD to my existing FBSD2.0-R > box (now running with 2 IDE drives) > Any thoughts? comments? hellish nightmares to share? Don't buy it. There may someday be support for it, but nobody's particularly keen because their performance is pretty awful. > TR Nguyen > Of course... I do realize if I just go with this high-end Adaptec card > I'm dreaming of, this would be asked... but it would break my budget... A secondhand 1542 shouldn't cost you much more, and it'll walk all over the FD card. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[