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Date:      Tue, 16 Sep 1997 03:09:07 -0500
From:      Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com>
To:        scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   PCI Advansys controller...
Message-ID:  <19970916030907.64550@gaffaneys.com>

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There is a place in town that has a couple of PCI AdvanSys cards it wants to
get rid of.  I happen to be in the market for a couple PCI scsi cards.  The
salesman pointed me to a file on the AdvanSys ftp server
(ftp://ftp.advansys.com/pub/freebsd/freebsd.txt, dated 1/16/97) that noted ISA
support was supposed to be done and PCI support was near completion.  And, are
these cards junk? (the ones he wants to sell are 930AU, I think).

Which version of FreeBSD has this?  It must be -current, since a grep of LINT
doesn't show any matches for advansys in 2.2-stable.

This same store has two Symbios 53c875 based cards on back-order for me, but
they would cancel that order, if I got those AdvanSys cards.

How good of trade would that be (the Advansys cards are about half the price
of the Symbios cards, $80 vs. $150).  I know the Symbios chip has the scripts
memory, and can offload some of the work from the host CPU, but exactly how
much of a win is that?

Thanks for any anwser.

-- 
Zach Heilig



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