From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 9 21:02:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA11730 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 21:02:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA11722 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 21:02:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA05168; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 21:02:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 21:02:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Stephane Legrand cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI card : Asus SC200 or Tekram DC390 ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Stephane Legrand wrote: > Hello, > > I want to buy a cheap scsi2 card for my freebsd (2.1.5) box. > I hesitate between Asus SC200 and Tekram DC390. > > I heard that the main problem with Asus SC200 is that it doesn't include a > scsi BIOS and, therefore, it doesn't work if the PC mainboard doesn't > support NCR bios ? Is that true ? And how to verify if my mainboard is > comptatible ? what BIOS does your motherboard have? > Second, i also read in mailing list archive that the Tekram use an AMD chip > which is not so good than NCR chip used by Asus. Again, is that true ? > Which card is the best for scsi2 ? I prefer the NCR's since I know it's supported. Great performance, cheap price :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major