groudier@club-internet.fr writes:
>
>
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > I'd have to agree. I've installed 5 DC390-U2W cards in different
> > machines since September, and they're solid. I use the sym53c8xx
> > driver. I also appreciate that Tekram provide generous accessories
> > with the card (twisted-pair U2W cable, flat UW cable, flat U cable,
> > U2W terminator) plus lots of connectors. It's nice not to have to shop
> > around separately for these.
>
> No problem for me to agree that Tekram DC-390/U2W, U2B and other Symbios
> 53C8XX based controllers are great controllers at a very reasonnable
> price, but ...
>
> This is quite different for their DC-395 series that uses a
> pathetically poor SCSI chip of their own that does not have a
> hardware phase engine. Result is about 5 interrupts per IO or even
> more. This may fit O/S expectation as Windows, but for real O/Ses
> the DC-395 can only be very sub-optimal compared to the DC-390
> series.
> On the other hand, their numbering DC-395 may let think that it is
> some successor to the DC-390 series. Not only this is untrue, but
> the DC-395 looks like a 10 years old design based SCSI chip.
Interesting. Is the 395 a new board? Does Linux support it?
Hopefully the hardware database/HOWTO (whatever it is these days) has
a warn-off in it.
Regards,
Richard....
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