From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 26 10:54:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA25693 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:54:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lightning.tbe.net (qmailr@[208.208.122.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA25678 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:54:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 27299 invoked by uid 1010); 26 Aug 1997 17:46:42 -0000 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 13:46:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" To: Robin Melville cc: dkelly@HiWAAY.net, michael@blueneptune.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there still problems with Adaptec UW controllers (fwd) In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970826145931.00730008@wrcmail> 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 > Incidentally, if anyone can suggest alternative 100 Mbit ether cards which > they've had working happily with 2940s I'd be grateful for a tip. > Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 B PCI Cards are the best we've seen so far. We have been using Adaptec 2940UW's and 2940U's with these cards ever since 2.1.5, and there haven't been any problems with them so far. As an example, we run the following combinations: Gigabyte 586HX with a Cyrix 150+ and a 2940UW with an IBM DCES 1 Gig SCSI-2 drive, Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 B, FBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE Gigabyte 586HX with a Cyrix 150+ and a 2940U with a DEC 2-Gig SCSI-2 drive, Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 B, FBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE (soon to be 2.2.2-RELEASE) Gigabyte 586ATV (VX) with a Cyrix 166+ and a 2940U with a DEC 2-Gig SCSI-2 drive, Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 B, FBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE Asus P55T2P4 with a Cyrix 166+, Adaptec 2940U and a Seagate 1-Gig SCSI-2, Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 B, FBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE ______________________________________________________________ -Gary Margiotta Voice: (973) 835-9696 TBE Internet Services Fax: (973) 256-4605 http://www.tbe.net E-Mail: gary@tbe.net