Glenn Meyer wrote:
> 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.
Which is the problem. Many people don't, and they are hard to point
to on the shelf. Even though you have a number of products on the
shelf with Advansys and Symbios Logic chipsets on this.
> I will look into picking up one of those.
Again, if you just need SE (upto 40MBps UltraWide), here is product
you want:
http://www.siig.com/products/scsi/ap40_scsipro.html
http://www.siig.com/products/scsi/ap40_scsipro_specs.html
And is available at your local CompUSA:
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?prodzip=&product_code=278120
[ Only $69 now! ]
Note: Advansys has the nice "Adaptec-like" BIOS/POST setup screen
too, if that is important. Again, this is the card I personally
bought just about a year ago for my Exabyte Mammoth2 (UltraWide).
If you need LVD, here is the Ultra80 (aka Ultra2) series using the
Symbios Logic 53c895 chip:
http://www.tekram.com/hot_products.asp?Product=DC-390U2_Series
And here is the Ultra160 (aka Ultra3) series using the Symbios Logic
53c1010 chip:
http://www.tekram.com/hot_products.asp?Product=DC-390U3_Series
The DC-390U2B starts at just over $100. There are also other
Ultra80 products out there using both the single bus 895 and the
dual-bus 896. The 896 is very popular on a number of Alph, Intel,
SPARC and 3rd party mainboards.
BTW, the series you want is DC-390 *NOT* DC-395 (like I said earlier
-- DOOH!). Although the DC-395 has a Linux-compatible chip, the
TekRam S1040 (which may be Symbios core based?), it is far less
mature than the Advansys chip. But they do have endless driver
disks for different distros, and it's great for scanners and
CD-ROMs. Especialy the $20, "BIOS-less" DC-315U, so consider it
when
you have a non-booting SCSI device:
http://www.tekram.com/hot_products.asp?Product=DC-3X5_Series
> 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.
It shouldn't be. Although I've had endless BIOS/firmware issues --
especially with older Adaptec cards that didn't have an EEPROM. I
bought an upgrade chip from them once only to be disappointed.
Again, Adaptec has caused me more grief than I ever want to deal
with again.
The only Adaptec products I will even consider are the ones
inherited from DPT. There is a good, true hardware ATA-RAID
controller from Adaptec, the 2400A. It is a DPT I2C one that has a
Linux driver (unlike the great majority of Adaptec's ATA/SCSI RAID
controllers). But even then, I like 3Ware, although they don't have
enough on-board memory for good RAID-5 write performance (kick @$$
at RAID-0, 1, 0+1 and read RAID-5 using SRAM, instead of DRAM, but
they only have 1MB of SRAM).
-- TheBS
-- Bryan "TheBS" Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org chat:thebs413 Engineer AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. http://www.linux-wlan.org President SmithConcepts, Inc. http://www.SmithConcepts.com
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