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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!psgrain!iafrica.com!ticsa.com!cstatd.cstat.co.za!usenet From: frankdm@iaccess.za (Mark Maunder) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: SCSI PCI host adapter Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 22:20:49 -400 Organization: Whatever Lines: 15 Message-ID: <41t8l9$393@grovel.iafrica.com> References: <418r3m$9c6@trauma.rn.com> <419963$hst@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <41eadg$1ajc@news.mindspring.com> <41rqk7$2oj@mailhub.hcl.com> <41sjek$rtu@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: slipper74248.iaccess.za Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NewsReader: QNews v0.9b3 Beta 14 Apr 1994 Evaluation copy. Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.scsi:36596 comp.os.linux.hardware:14693 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5397 comp.os.linux.setup:18852 > > 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. I'm sure that the answer to this has been posted, but is there any way at all to get Linux 1.2.x to recognize my AHA2940 controller (ASUS Mainboard with 1 gig drive). I've tryed various boot images and no luck. All I get is '0 SCSI hosts' at bootup. Thanx. Mark