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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: The wonders of power cuts
Date: 29 Jan 1996 01:00:31 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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Message-ID: <MICHAELV.96Jan28170031@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
References: <804@crane.ukc.ac.uk> <DLr5BD.Izp.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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In-reply-to: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk's message of Thu, 25 Jan 1996 19:40:25 GMT
In article <DLr5BD.Izp.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
In article <804@crane.ukc.ac.uk> K.R.Marshall@ukc.ac.uk (Keith Marshall) writes:
>The only other SCSI cards I have around are Future Domain ones, which
>won't work with FreeBSD, so I can't swap the card. I'm just about at
>the stage of ordering a new Adaptec card to see if that's the problem,
Probably not the suggestion you want, but for around £ 40 you can buy
an NCR PCI SCSI card which should give you better performance than the
much more expensive Adaptec ISA card. (Or for around £ 30, you can
but a Future Domain 8xx adaptor which does work with FreeBSD and will
give you worse performance than the Adaptec.)
Or, buy BusLogic. They're in the same price range as Adaptec cards,
but are the most widely supported under the free unix systems. The
NCR 53c8{10,15,25} will be cheaper, and also give you good
performance.
DON'T buy an Adaptec 154x if you're serious about performance --
getting an ISA SCSI card is one of the quickest ways to bottleneck
performance on your machine. If you are serious about keeping good
I/O performance on your machine, stick with a PCI, EISA, or VLB card,
in that order, according to what busses are available on your
motherboard.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
--< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >--
NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4,
DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532
NetBSD ports in progress: VAX, Atari 68k, others...
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