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Re: Any preferences for PCI SCSI controllers? Or is this a religious issue?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kagel@quasar.bloomberg.com)
Mon Jan 27 17:11:25 1997
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 16:56:16 -0500
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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.
Please elaborate. Why not? BTW, I do not have much choice. The card I have
locks up after a few hours use (in both Linux and DOS) and cannot be used until
it has cooled down. I am seriously concerned about unflushed caches, etc. and
I have a project for my kids' school that has to get done or their biggest fund-
raiser of the year will be a big flop.
--
Art S. Kagel, kagel@quasar.bloomberg.com
A proverb is no proverb to you 'till life has illustrated it. -- John Keats
