Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 16:39:47 +0000 () From: Marc Rassbach <marc@tandem.milestonerdl.com> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Speed of the cards? was Re: SCSI card to choose Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971214162010.7062O-100000@tandem.milestonerdl.com> In-Reply-To: <199712142004.VAA28683@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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As I am looking at overclocking my bus speed, which cards (SCSI and network) out there are known to work at faster bus rates? (75 and 83 mhz bus) http://www.anandtech.com/cgi-bin/Database_manager/db_manager.cgi?setup_file=ocfpers.setup is starting such a list.... On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Oliver Fromme wrote: Unless Adaptec has changed: If I have 1 card with CD and 4 more without and the OS I bought requires a driver supplied by Adaptec, I am only licenced for 1 copy, not 5. BusLogic allowed me to buy/download the one driver and replicate it. > IMHO this is a good thing, because you pay only for what you > actually need. For example, if you have to equip a pool with And I consider vendors creating and supplying drives to be a necessary job for them... not an extra charge. > Nevertheless, I agree that Adaptec's SCSI adapters are over- > priced (at least the "consumer line", i.e. 1542, 2840, 2940), Nod, and for that extra cost, they should be happy to provide the drivers.
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