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From: eefeisal@atlantic.swan.ac.uk (Feisal Mohammed)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI problems
Date: 21 Aug 1996 12:18:15 GMT
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In article <4v4dqu$au3@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch wrote:
>The aic driver (btw., you should have mentioned it, ``Adaptec'' is not
>specific enough) suffers from enormous bit rot, it hasn't been
>maintained for ages.  Nobody from the active developers seems to be
>plagued with such a controller.
[snip]

Oh boy!  I was going to get one also an AVA 1515, because it's cheap and I
don't want to spend too much money on ISA since I will be moving to PCI
in < 2 years.  My idea was to go SCSI so that I can transfer things to the
new system easier.  The next step up is the AHA 1542 which is almost 2x the
price of the 1515 here.  Does anybody have any suggestions of an alternative
or have the 1515 been working for them.  I will only have one device on the
1515 (a tape drive).

-Feisal
-- 
Feisal Mohammed <f.o.mohammed@swansea.ac.uk>