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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,alt.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc-hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542C for $125CDN -- comments?
Date: 23 Jun 1995 15:43:37 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <rrwood-2106951636420001@bpci.net3.io.org>, Roy Wood <rrwood@io.org> wrote:
>
>I'm looking at picking up a secondhand Adaptec 1542C SCSI card for $125
>Canadian (about $175US) for use with FreeBSD

    Either you mean $175 Cdn (and $125 US) or $125 Cdn and $90 US.
The looney hasn't gone up *that* much.  :)

>So, if you're currently using an Adaptec 1542C SCSI adaptor, please drop
>me a note describing your experience and/or recommendations.

    Got one in the 486DX2/66 here.  Not much to say about it.  It runs
and runs and runs.  Never had a problem with it under four 2.0
snapshots and now under 2.0.5.
-- 
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org