From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 5 21:37:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA29509 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 21:37:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (slcmodem1-p1-4.intele.net [204.118.149.103]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA29504 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 21:37:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA06633; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 22:38:40 -0800 Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 22:38:40 -0800 From: Barnacle Wes Message-Id: <199602060638.WAA06633@obie.softweyr.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Reply-To: wes@intele.net CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Most stable VLB (was EISA) SCSI controller? In-Reply-To: <130740316@toto.iv> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Some gentle soul queried: > Does anyone know which EISA SCSI controller is the "most stable" >under FreeBSD 2.1R? Justin T. Gibbs replied: > If you don't want to get a 2742, get a 1742. If you can't find a > 1742, get a bt747. The 2742 has 1/3rd the command overhead of > the 1742 and does tagged queueing. The 2742 has 1/5th the command > overhead of the bt747 and even though the bt747 may support tagged > queueing, our driver does not. The 2742 is by far the best EISA > controller we support, but if upgrading the 2.1-STABLE is not an > option, then pick one of the other two controllers. The ahc driver > in 2.1-STABLE is, as the name implies, much more stable. :) I assume all the same applies to the 2842? Is the driver actually the same? And, should I get one of these jewels, should I immediately, if not sooner, upgrade to 2.1-STABLE? Enquiring minds want to know! A second question for the group: a few mail-order houses are carrying the 2842 sans EZ-SCSI software, for about $40 discount. Other vendors tell me they shouldn't be doing this. My local hardware house often carries Adaptec kits w/o EZ-SCSI, but not in the 2842. Should I go ahead and buy from these guys who don't feel it necessary to sell me software I don't want or need? ;^) -- Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate... wes@intele.net | Jimmy Buffett