From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 18 08:33:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA27038 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 08:33:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA27033 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 08:33:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id KAA07308; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 10:31:59 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199607181531.KAA07308@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: mitsumi CD-ROM To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 10:31:59 -0500 (CDT) Cc: dennis@etinc.com, mrm@Mole.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Jul 17, 96 09:35:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I still like the: > > > > PCI on-board IDE (almost all Pentium MBs) $0. > > New NCR 825, about $115. > > > Adaptec PCI SCSI (2940) $179. New ASUS NCR 810, $60 (wholesale). New generic NCR 810, $40 (a customer of mine found them in some discount catalog, they seem to work just fine too). Note: 3 x ASUS NCR 810 = 1 x AHA 2940. 1 x NCR 810 is very similar in performance to 1 x AHA 2940. ;-) Regrettably your MB needs to have the SYMBIOS support, but all good motherboards seem to ;-) I am not arguing {for,against} {SCSI,IDE}. I'm just encouraging responsibility and reality in numbers. I use both SCSI and IDE disks - generally I select SCSI when I need more than a single disk. Both have their places. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968