Thank you for your input. I have lived a rather shelter SCSI life. Most
SCSI experience has been with proprietary controllers and with NT 3.51 and
4.0, so I had not even heard of the other brands you've suggested. I will
look into picking up one of those.
This is a Wide controller and it worked with 6.2 and 7.0 RedHat if I pulled
it from the box during install and then added it later. But I really am
suspect of the card in this case.
Thank you for your input!
On Monday 24 September 2001 04:16 pm, you wrote:
> Glenn Meyer wrote:
> > ... RedHat 7.1 (both kernel 2.4.2 and 2.4.3) ... locking up hard ...
> > AHA-2940 SCSI card ... same SCSI Card ... RedHat 6.2 and 7.0, I had
> > no problems ...
>
> In using Linux with Adaptec cards since 1993, I have banged my head
> up against the wall with absolute regularity. I remember when
> Adaptec first started "officially" supporting Linux 1997 -- the
> "hacked" drivers were replaced by far worse "official" ones. Again,
> sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Frustration after
> frustration keeps me from buying Adaptec anymore.
>
> Especially with Ultra and/or Wide Single Ended (SE), let alone the
> Ultra2/80, 160+ Low Voltage Differential (LVD) speeds. So, while
> I'll use FastNarrow Adaptec cards, various ones, but nothing that
> does Ultra, Wide nor LVD.
>
> When I need Ultra, I go with the guys that have been officially
> supporting Linux since they were, basically, born -- Advansys.
> You'll find their chips at the heart of IOMega and a number of SIIG
> SCSI controllers. After having various issues with an Adaptec
> AHA-2940UW driving an Exabyte Mammoth2, I ripped it out and put an
> $89 SIIG Ultra40 in and got solid, and even faster performance, with
> no other issues.
>
> I also prefer Symbios Logic-based solutions. I have used them on
> Alpha (Linux, NT, OpenVMS) as well as Intel. They always beat
> Adaptec in both price and performance in every single review I've
> seen. TekRam's DC-395-series ports Symbios' solutions, including
> even some low-costing dual-channel Ultra160 ones. For a review of
> the TekRam v. Adaptec Ultra160 solutions, see here:
> http://www.zepa.net/hypermail/elug/hardware/2001/05/0003.html
> http://www.zepa.net/hypermail/elug/hardware/2001/05/0004.html
>
> Adaptec is to SCSI what Promise is to IDE. The retail marketeer who
> is more expensive and slower than better options -- especially for
> Linux support. The only Adaptec products I can stand are the old
> DPT ones -- they have good Alpha and Linux support (using a nice,
> well-defined, I2C-based interface at the controller).
>
> -- TheBS
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