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From: ericvb@Sun.COM (Eric van Bezooijen)
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
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.unix.bsd
Date: 3 Oct 1995 22:12:57 GMT
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Russell Carter (rcarter@best.com) wrote:
: In article <DFsGn2.7ut@lut.ac.uk>,  <J.C.Highfield@lut.ac.uk> wrote:
: >moos@fmi.uni-passau.de (Darius Moos) writes:

: >>I want to buy a new FAST-SCSI-2-PCI-controller in the next days and i'm not

[ lossy compression ]

: for a smallish list that these controllers work flawlessly on.  Just
: do not match a Quantum Grand Prix 4.3G with the NCR at least up to
: FreeBSD-current.

Ak! This is exactly what happened to me! Avoid this at *all* costs if you want
to retain your sanity!

-Eric (now insane)

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