From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 31 17:26:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA12951 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:26:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA12932; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:26:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id JAA00701; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 09:56:29 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708010026.JAA00701@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: SCSI Card to use. In-Reply-To: from "David E. Cross" at "Jul 31, 97 02:30:27 pm" To: dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu (David E. Cross) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 09:56:29 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It's better to ask questions like this on -hardware rather than -hackers. David E. Cross stands accused of saying: > I am looking to pick up a SCSI 3 Ultrawide card. I was looking at the > Adaptec 2940 Ultrawide. Is there a better card to get, or one that has > better support within the FreeBSD comunity? The Adaptec is about as good as they get, and the support is generally very good (although the driver does go through patches of instability when Adaptec make changes to their range or programming data). An alternative to be considered seriously is any card based on the NCR 875 chip; see http://www.tekram.com for one such device. These cards are _very_ well supported by FreeBSD, and the driver has been stable for a long time now. > David Cross -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[