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Re: OK, EISA it is!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
Thu Oct 12 03:58:11 1995
To: alb0@gte.com (Andrew Betz)
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Oct 1995 08:48:03 CDT."
<199510111341.JAA07731@ns.gte.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 19:19:58 -0600
From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@poohsticks.org>
In message <199510111341.JAA07731@ns.gte.com>, alb0@gte.com writes:
>
>Greetings again,
>
>OK, after being deluged with comments about avoiding ISA in favor of
>EISA, I've decided that EISA is the way to go. I'm getting price quotes
>on an Adaptec AHA-2740 controller this morning. I'm running Slackware
>1.1.59 and this is a supported card as I understand it.
IMHO, you're more likely to be happy with a Buslogic board. They
don't have the cabling sensitivity that the Adaptec boards do; use
a simpler, older, more stable driver; and the driver will use the same
microcode (in ROM) that's used for DOS, SCO, etc. and is therefore more
likely to have the bugs worked out.
