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Date:      Thu, 28 Dec 1995 14:53:24 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, craigs@venus.os.com, JSINNOTT@POMONA.EDU, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Recommendations for SCSI card?
Message-ID:  <199512280423.OAA01022@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951227194212.209B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Dec 27, 95 07:43:24 pm

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Doug White stands accused of saying:
> 
> On Thu, 28 Dec 1995, Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> > Bollocks, and a complete waste of money.  Spend less than $100 on an NCR
> > 53C810-based SCSI controller, and treat yourself to a nice dinner on the
> > change.  The NCR chips are troopers, and perform just as well.
> 
> I'm trying to find one of these fabled controllers.  I don't see anything 
> by NCR.  Are they hidden in someone else's products?

Lots of people use them; we buy the ASUS SC-200's because that's what we
can get, and because they supply active terminators onboard.  (Passive
termination makes no sense in a fast SCSI-2 environment)

> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  

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