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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!news.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!se From: se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: URGENT. PLEASE HELP with SCSI-controller-buy-decision Date: 2 Oct 1995 18:29:04 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 49 Message-ID: <44pb1g$pc0@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <44mlok$1jb@news.rz.uni-passau.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sysiphos.mi.uni-koeln.de Keywords: SCSI-controller, buy-decision To: moos@fmi.uni-passau.de (Darius Moos) Bcc: se Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:6744 comp.unix.bsd.misc:245 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5722 comp.os.386bsd.questions:17617 comp.unix.bsd:16712 In article <44mlok$1jb@news.rz.uni-passau.de>, moos@fmi.uni-passau.de (Darius Moos) writes: |> |> PLEASE HELP. URGENT. PLEASE HELP. URGENT. PLEASE HELP. URGENT. PLEASE HELP |> |> Hi folks, |> |> I want to buy a new FAST-SCSI-2-PCI-controller in the next days and i'm not |> sure which one to get. I'm running FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 and want to upgrade to 2.1 |> when it is released. I have an ADAPTEC-1542C and i never had problems with it, |> so i thought of getting the ADAPTEC-2940, BUT in the last days there was a |> discussion about SCSI-controller (ADAPTEC/BUSLOGIC/NCR) and now i really don't |> know which one to get. The controller should be supported in the future (NCR |> is leaving the PC-market), it should be supported by FreeBSD (read horror- |> stories about developers (of FreeBSD) and ADAPTEC), should NOT have any |> problems with specific harddisks (heard of problems BUSLOGIC has with some |> harddisks) and should have good performance. |> Now my question is: |> - Which SCSI-controller would you recommend ? 1) NCR may be leaving the PC market, but their SCSI products will live on ... The whole product line is supported by Symbios now, and they just announced new Fast-20 SCSI chips (Sym53c860 and Sym53c875) and cards based on those ... 2) Adaptec doesn't provide device writers with as much information as they used to, but since FTP.CDROM.COM is now running on 3 AH2940s, I guess they should be considered well supported :) 3) The BusLogic BT946C offers less performance than either the NCR or the Adaptec. If you can afford it, buy the Adaptec and relax, because you bought a well supported high quality product ... Me ? Well, I'm a satisfied user of the NCR (now Symbios) 53c810 ... :) Gruss, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/staff/esser/esser.html <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>