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On Mon, 29 Apr 1996 19:51:43 GMT, John Naismith
<John@naismith.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>I'm considering a "proper" SCSI adaptor (instead of the one on my SB-16). I'm 
>*seriously* tempted by the Buslogic "Flashpoint LT" adaptor. Anyone used it? Any 
>comments on Buslogic's *recent* adaptors? I've seen some tests run by VNU Labs 
>that suggest that it's one of the faster SCSI-2 PCI cards on the market. At 150 
>quid I can't see too much competition. I can't justify the Adaptec 2940UW, BTW.
>
>I realise that it's only capable of Ultra-SCSI on a narrow bus (20MB/s), but 
>then again I doubt whether I'll ever be in a position to own any UW-SCSI devices 
>- not till they're obsolete anyway :(

One of the generic NCR810 cards for about 40-50 quid is much better
value than either the Buslogic or the Adaptec. I've even seen some
becnhmark figures that show better performance with the NCR810 than
with the Adaptec 2940. This is of course a vanilla SCSI-2 controller
but there are fast & wide cards available too, can't remember which is
which but there is the 815, 820 & 825.
--
Nigel Barker
nigel@openvms.demon.co.uk