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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: External SCSI?
Date: 22 Jun 1995 13:10:29 +0200
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<kientzle@netcom.com> wrote:
>Looks like I'll bite the bullet and get a SCSI interface for my
>FreeBSD box.  Any pointers about hooking up an external SCSI connector?
>(Preferred connector? Any `gotchas' to watch for?)

Huh?  External connector?  Hmm, every PC SCSI adapter i've seen by now
does have one, so where's the problem?

Get a decent card, i.e. one that's doing bus-master DMA transfers.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)