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From: kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ultimate BSD PC Hardware Setup
Date: 21 Sep 1995 01:04:45 GMT
Organization: Applied Phyics Lab
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Message-ID: <43qdnd$2vt@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
References: <43df2f$id@future.internexus.net> <MICHAELV.95Sep17014633@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <811439745.10029@kiss.demon.co.uk> <MICHAELV.95Sep18161642@mindbender.headcandy.com> <DF7vs9.1zL@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
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Carsten Whimster wrote in article <DF7vs9.1zL@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> :
>
>In article <MICHAELV.95Sep18161642@mindbender.headcandy.com>,
>Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote:
>| In article <811439745.10029@kiss.demon.co.uk> phil@zipmail.co.uk (Phil Taylor) writes:
>|
>| In article <MICHAELV.95Sep17014633@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>,
>| michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com says...
>|
>| >Personally, I'd buy an NCR 53c810-based SCSI card, or a BusLogic,
>| >before I'd ever give money to Adaptec. But, to each his/her own.
>|
>| Why ???? I am running a pair of P90's both with 2940's and 2GB
>| Seagate Drives and Quad Speed CDROM's (and FreeBSD 2.0.5).
>| Both machines are super quick AND super stable (never crashed !!!!)
>| What is your problem with Adaptec ????? (dont knock it till you've
>| tried it !)
>|
>| I will not support Adaptec because of their Draconian policies. I
>| have nothing against the performance of their cards.
>
>Could you elaborate on this, please? I was considering an Adaptec, but
>I will listen to you first :)
>--
> Carsten Whimster bcrwhims@uwaterloo.ca
> EDM/2 Associate Editor and Book reviewer
> Team OS/2 POV-Panel/2 author
> http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~bcrwhims/
>
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