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Re: Any preferences for PCI SCSI controllers? Or is this a religious issue?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerard Roudier)
Mon Jan 27 17:04:02 1997
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:00:39 +0000 (GMT)
From: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
To: kagel@dg1.bloomberg.com
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9701271749.AA12105@quasar.bloomberg.com>
On Mon, 27 Jan 1997 kagel@quasar.bloomberg.com wrote:
>
> I had a Tyan 1365 (NCR825) Wide SCSI controller which was working OK but it
> seems to have a cold lead somewhere and I will be exchanging it with the
> dealer. I have the opportunity to upgrade now to an ULTRA-WIDE controller.
> Does anyone have any strong recommendations for or against the:
>
> ADAPTEC 2940UW
> BUSLOGIC BT-958
>
> Are there drivers for these available (I will hunt myself but I may miss it
> so if anyone knows definitively either way)?
>
> Can the driver handle a root partition on SCSI ID 1 (my MS-DOS C: drive is on
> drive ID 0 so...)?
If you have only fast scsi-2 devices or less than 2 Ultra (Wide) disk I will
recommend you to not buy a new controller for the moment.
Gerard.
