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Date:      Tue, 13 Jun 2000 19:44:34 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        Shawn Ramsey <megadeth@luke.cpl.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dkelly@hiwaay.net
Subject:   Re: low-cost SCSI cards?? 
Message-ID:  <200006140044.TAA96877@nospam.hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from Shawn Ramsey <megadeth@luke.cpl.net>  of "Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:54:22 PDT." <20000613165422.G91833@luke.cpl.net> 

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Shawn Ramsey writes:
> > > > 
> > > >      Suggestions, please!
> > > 
> > > Symbios '875 based cards (UW, PCI) were about $60 last time I looked. 
> > > The interesting Tekram cards are Symbios based. I have been happy with 
> > > an Asus SC875 (about $110 last time I looked) and a genuine Symbios 
> > > card of forgotten model ($60).
> > 
> > 	The Asus's are very good card. The only downside is a lack of
> > drive availabitly for Windows 98! :) (First time I've ever said that!) And
> > the 95 drive will not work under 98... simple enough fix though, slapped
> > it into one of my servers. :) Oh, and last I heard they were out of
> > productions. But the Tekram cards are as good.
> 
> We have used many of the Tekram cards, and the work great. The Symbios
> cards also work well, and are cheaper. But good luck finding one. Do es
> anyone have a source for these? I've misplaced the link to only place we
> ever bought one from. It was a UW for like $60, which is hard to beat.

http://www.centrix-intl.com/ has a Symbios 8251S using the '825 chipset
(UWSCSI) for a budget busting $39.

They used to have the single ended SYM8751SP for $59 but have apparently
sold out and only have the differential version now.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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