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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!gracie.lbl.gov!jin From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: SCSI PCI host adapter Date: 30 Aug 1995 00:27:19 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 23 Message-ID: <420b97$2rr@overload.lbl.gov> References: <418r3m$9c6@trauma.rn.com> <41eadg$1ajc@news.mindspring.com> <41rqk7$2oj@mailhub.hcl.com> <41sjek$rtu@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: gracie.lbl.gov Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.scsi:36214 comp.os.linux.hardware:14196 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5053 comp.os.linux.setup:18147 In article <41sjek$rtu@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >Rudy Amid <rudy@hcl.com> wrote: > >> How does the NCR controller compares to the Adaptec AHA2940 PCI controller? >>The price difference is one, but what about performance? > >I remember some figures that claimed the AHA2940 could get about 20 % >more than the NCR. This information may apply to FreeBSD 1.x. NCR has not disadvantage than any other SCSI-2 controllers. All Pentinum-100 BIOS should be support it. I have 10 different Pentinum motherboards and every one works with NCR SCSI controllers. BTW, I believe that NCR provide free BIOS upgrading kits for NCR chipset. -- /-------------- Jin Guojun ------------ v ---- Internet: g_jin@lbl.gov ----\ | Imaging & Distributed Computing | Usenet: ucbvax!g_jin@lbl.gov | | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Bitnet: -- | | 50B-2239, Berkeley, CA 94720 - jin%george.lbl.gov@Csa3.LBL.Gov |