From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 20 10:24:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA15471 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:24:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from att.com (cagw1.att.com [192.128.52.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA15462 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:24:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sbabkin@dcn.att.com) From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Received: from caig1.fw.att.com by cagw1.att.com (AT&T/IPNS/UPAS-1.0) for freebsd.org!hackers sender dcn.att.com!sbabkin (dcn.att.com!sbabkin); Thu Aug 20 12:39 EDT 1998 Received: from dcn71.dcn.att.com ([135.44.192.112]) by caig1.fw.att.com (AT&T/IPNS/GW-1.0) with ESMTP id MAA13076 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:47:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: by dcn71.dcn.att.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:47:16 -0400 Message-ID: To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, housley@pr-comm.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: SCSI Controller Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:47:16 -0400 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no [SMTP:dag-erli@ifi.uio.no] > > "James E. Housley" writes: > > Buslogic 445S/445c VLB > > Adaptec 1542 ISA > > Adaptec 274x/284x/2940/2940U/3940 VLB > > 2940 ought to work like a charm. 1542 is a piece of junk compared to > modern technology (but should work). 3940 will definitely not work on > a non-CAM system. I have no experience with BusLogic. > What's the difference between 3940 and 2940 ? The only thing I know is that 3940 has two channels, and it worked for me fine with SCO Unix and Linux with the same driver as for 2940. > If you're going for low-budget, I'd suggest looking around for NCR > (SymBios) based controllers. They're cheap and are rumored to work > very well with FreeBSD. Dunno if there are VLB versions out though. > Symbios is really great and cheap thing. But they are PCI. -Sergey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message