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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Ultimate BSD PC Hardware Setup
Message-ID: <1995Sep27.155507.4957@wavehh.hanse.de>
Organization: The Internet
References: <43df2f$id@future.internexus.net> <MICHAELV.95Sep17014633@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <811439745.10029@kiss.demon.co.uk> <43l0k2$i1a@doright.lbl.gov> <445coa$sd8@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 95 15:55:07 GMT
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dan@dna.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu writes:

>In <43l0k2$i1a@doright.lbl.gov>, jin@doright.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) writes:
>)In article <811439745.10029@kiss.demon.co.uk>,
>)Phil Taylor <phil@zipmail.co.uk> wrote:
>)>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.
>)The problem is $255 (Adaptec) vs. $55 (NCR) I guess. BusLogic is OK one but
>)cost $240 too.  NCR is the best on for both performance and price. I have
>>40 of them on our 20 different Pentinum100 - 120 - 133 systems.

>	Can someone post the brand and source of a good NCR SCSI card ?

The Asus SC-200 is one that have proper termination and don't cause
problems when used in quantities of more than one (in my machine).

Most non-names have termination problems, so at least you have to have
active termination on your disk.

Martin

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