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From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: SCSI Stuffs
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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 06:49:49 GMT
>> On 15 Jun 1996 19:13:23 GMT, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) said:
JW> Pick any bus-master SCSI controller. For a new PCI machine,
JW> the Adaptec 2940's are a good choice, or the NCR-based cheap
JW> controllers. The latter require a board with an appropriate
JW> BIOS support however if you wanna boot from this controller,
JW> so about the only choice is an ASUS mainboard.
NCR 810 boards need BIOS support from the mainboard. But other NCR's
(like the 815) have BIOS itself.
I just bought an NCR 815, and it works like a charm with my non-ASUS
mainboard. It replaced by Adaptec 1542CF, and my disks are now about 3
times as fast. An Adaptec 2940 would have been 3 times more expensive
here.
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