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Date:      Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:47:16 -0400
From:      sbabkin@dcn.att.com
To:        dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, housley@pr-comm.com
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: SCSI Controller
Message-ID:  <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEFF8BB4@dcn71.dcn.att.com>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	dag-erli@ifi.uio.no [SMTP:dag-erli@ifi.uio.no]
> 
> "James E. Housley" <housley@pr-comm.com> writes:
> > Buslogic 445S/445c VLB
> > Adaptec 1542 ISA
> > Adaptec 274x/284x/2940/2940U/3940 VLB
> 
> 2940 ought to work like a charm. 1542 is a piece of junk compared to
> modern technology (but should work). 3940 will definitely not work on
> a non-CAM system. I have no experience with BusLogic.
> 
What's the difference between 3940 and 2940 ? The only thing I know
is that 3940 has two channels, and it worked for me fine with
SCO Unix and Linux with the same driver as for 2940.

> If you're going for low-budget, I'd suggest looking around for NCR
> (SymBios) based controllers. They're cheap and are rumored to work
> very well with FreeBSD. Dunno if there are VLB versions out though.
> 
Symbios is really great and cheap thing. But they are PCI.

-Sergey


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