From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Apr 20 12:33:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA22553 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 12:33:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp3.xs4all.nl (smtp3.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA22397 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 19:32:05 GMT (envelope-from schofiel@xs4all.nl) Received: from xs2.xs4all.nl (root@xs2.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.43]) by smtp3.xs4all.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA22428 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 21:31:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from excelsior (enterprise.xs4all.nl [194.109.14.215]) by xs2.xs4all.nl (8.8.8/8.8.6) with SMTP id VAA29525 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 21:28:59 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <353BA14D.1F49@xs4all.nl> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 21:26:05 +0200 From: Rob Schofield Reply-To: schofiel@xs4all.nl Organization: Knights of the Round Table, Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recomended ISA SCSI Cards References: <199804201726.KAA01852@ryouko.nas.nasa.gov> <353B870B.C27F99AD@tdx.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Karl Pielorz wrote: > I have a 1542 - but I've seen theres problems with bounce-buffers and stuff > on the 1542 - I was looking to moving away from it if I can... This is not applicable if you are talking about a motherboard with a shared PCI/ISA bus bridge setup, and a decent bios. What version of the 1542 are you talking here, A, B or C? Or OEM flavours? > > > Real recommendation: get a PCI motherboard, they're cheap. > > The board allready is a PCI motherboard, I've just about got 1 PCI slot free > - but I'd rather not waste it on a PCI SCSI card when all it's running is a > Zip drive... Err... to be honest, you're probably gonna spend more money on buying (and time setting up) a SCSI card, plus the in-line terminator you'll need, and the type A SCSI 1 -> Apple DB25 connector adaptor. Surely you are better off selling on the ZIP and buying either the parallel port version (setup in seconds, uses a printer cable) or going for the ZIP Plus+ (Uuurgghh who thought that one up) drive, which gives you best of both worlds. And yes, since you ask, I have just done *EXACTLY* that - spot the idiot speaking from experience... Rob Schofield To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message