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From: art@pilikia.pegasus.com (Art Neilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Adaptec for ESDI too?
Message-ID: <1990Aug17.085343.21187@pilikia.pegasus.com>
Date: 17 Aug 90 08:53:43 GMT
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In article <26@raysnec.UUCP> shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes:
>
>	Anyone have experience with Adaptec's ESDI series? Just received
>an info pack covering their entire PC line, including the ACB-232x series.
>How does this compare - cost, performance, compatibility - with, say,
>the Western Digital WD1007V or other such controllers? I'm especially
>interested in supporting some flavor of 386/486 UN*X.

I've had an Adaptec 2322B-8 in my machine for around two years now and
have had no difficulties with the controller.  The 2322 series is on
ISC's supported devices list and installs as a standard AT controller
thru kconfig.  The B-8 version has an 8K cache onboard, which should
improve performance although I have no idea how much.  I recommend
the controller because it is reliable, supported by the OS, and is
quite popular with systems integrators.  It's a thumbs up from me.
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