Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 17:13:01 +0000 () From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: scrappy@hub.org (Marc G. Fournier) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACER Motherboard: SCSI Recommendations? Message-ID: <199512131713.RAA23143@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951213002536.3386A-100000@hub.org> from "Marc G. Fournier" at Dec 13, 95 00:34:26 am
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Marc G. Fournier stands accused of saying: > I'm just about to get what I've been told will be an ACER > 486DX4-100 Motherboard (PCI), and am interested in getting a PCI > SCSI controller to go with it. Should be OK; haven't heard too many horror stories about these. > Now, a friend of mine talked about the NCR PCI controllers > that are relatively cheap (~$100), but he mentioned that they work > particularly good on an ASUS motherboard... They work pretty well on most motherboards 8) At that sort of price, they're a really good deal. > Oh...an afterthought, along the same lines...any recommendations > on Ethernet cards for similar system? Preferably PCI, 100MBs isn't a > necessity, unless the cost is reasonable (on a budget here, for now *sigh*) Prettywell anything based on the DEC DC2104x chips; the Compex ENET32-PCI cards are what I use; SMC also have cards that use this chip. If you want to do 100MB, cards based on the DC21140 are the way to go. The drivers for these chips are the work of a DEC insider who appears to really know what's what. (Have a look at the source sometime and see what I mean...) > The main thing is stuff that I'm not going to have headaches > with under the *-stable tree...I'm trying to prove to someone that > FreeBSD is a viable alternative to "those commercial OSs", and its > a hard sell :( Just keep plugging; a PCI DX4 is a good workhorse, but make sure you put enough memory in it - 16M is a minimum. > scrappy@hub.org | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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