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Date:      Wed, 17 Nov 1999 16:44:32 +1100
From:      Andrew Reilly <A.Reilly@lake.com.au>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        rivers@dignus.com (Thomas David Rivers), dkelly@hiwaay.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ASUS P2B-S and FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <99111716482700.39935@gurney.reilly.home>
References:  <199911170535.VAA20264@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 08:02:54PM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > we don't use the P2B-DS unless someone
> > > really insists on it, we'd rather put an NCR 53C875 in it than sell
> > > them the -DS.
> > 
> > Why?  Price difference?  Performance reasons?  Reliability
> Because :-)  Yes.          Yes.                  Yes.
> 
> > experience?
> 
> And defanitly yes.

Fair enough.  I didn't realise that an extra-card '875 would be cheaper
than the on-board Adaptec.  I'm onto my second built-in-Adaptec motherboard
(first iwill, now gigabyte), and they've both worked like champs.  I
remember them being less expensive than the equivelant board+Adaptec card,
but probably didn't compare them to the '875 for price.

Having more spare PCI slots is a factor too.

--
Andrew


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