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Date:      Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:02:17 -0800 (PST)
From:      David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCSI Adapters
Message-ID:  <199811191602.IAA11863@pau-amma.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199811190128.TAA02696@n4hhe.ampr.org>

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>From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
>Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 19:28:53 -0600

>Possibly the biggest difference between my Adaptec 2940 and Asus SC875 
>is the Adaptec has low level format and surface scanning utilities 
>built into its BIOS, where the Symbios based card requires DOS-based 
>uitilities to do the same.

Ah; that is useful information, since it means that as far as I'm
concerned, the Symbios cards are utterly worthless.

>Am told Tekram's Symbios cards have these utilities in their BIOS.

Also good to know, for a related reason.

david
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