From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Dec 14 13:21:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA11898 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 13:21:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from tandem.milestonerdl.com (main.milestonerdl.com [204.107.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA11892 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 13:21:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@tandem.milestonerdl.com) Received: (from marc@localhost) by tandem.milestonerdl.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA07597; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 16:39:47 GMT Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 16:39:47 +0000 () From: Marc Rassbach To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Speed of the cards? was Re: SCSI card to choose In-Reply-To: <199712142004.VAA28683@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.