[1589] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Which pci-scsi host adapter should I get?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerard Roudier)
Fri Mar 21 16:47:57 1997
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 22:32:27 +0000 (GMT)
From: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
To: "art s. kagel IFMX x2697" <kagel@dg1.bloomberg.com>
cc: Robert Johannes <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu>,
Edward Welbon <welbon@bga.com>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.D-G.3.91.970321102647.14756C-100000@dg1>
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, art s. kagel IFMX x2697 wrote:
> Linux supports most major SCSI controllers SCSI-I -> SCSI-III Fast/Wide.
> I have had Future Domain (RIP), NCR, and BusLogic and I have found the
> BusLogic PCI SCSI-III Fast/Wide Bus Master controller to be extremely
> fast and reliable. (My FD was ISA bus and Very slow as expected. The
> NCR was PCI and apparently had a bad trace so I returned it and replaced
> it with the BusLogic.)
If you just mean that oranges are not apples, I agree.
> The driver support for the BusLogic is great with the BusLogic people
> directly supporting the maintainer with new products and specs. Also all
> BusLogic controllers are driver compatible so that the driver is simple
> and supports new controllers quickly. BusLogic even lists Linux support
> in their docs and Web pages.
If you just mean that oranges mixed with apples have taste of oranges and
apples as well, I agree too.
Can you please be more accurate?
- Which Future domain board?
- Which NCR board?
- Which drivers did you use in which version?
- Which OS/es did you use?
- In which other boards have been not fast and reliable enough for you?
- What mean 'fast' for you?
- What means 'bad trace'? (I did not find this expression in my dictionnary)
- What means 'driver compatible' for you?
Now, some informations for you.
Linux support boards in Wide Ultra-2 mode (80 MB/seconds).
And now, just for the fun:
Here is the all Buslogic boards compatible driver:
(527967 bytes)
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 172611 Mar 21 22:21 BusLogic.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49686 Mar 21 22:21 BusLogic.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 305670 Mar 21 22:21 FlashPoint.c
Here is a shorter driver that is compatible with the whole AIC7XX chips
family and the 53C8XX chips family as well.
(449233 bytes)
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 174282 Oct 28 22:21 aic7xxx.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2305 Aug 10 1996 aic7xxx.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15494 Apr 20 1996 aic7xxx_asm.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9261 Oct 13 10:44 aic7xxx_proc.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21170 Oct 13 10:44 aic7xxx_reg.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 196906 Jan 17 21:18 ncr53c8xx.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29815 Jan 17 21:18 ncr53c8xx.h
Gerard.
