[2624] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Drives and cards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Welbon)
Mon Oct 13 01:52:35 1997
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:50:31 -0500 (CDT)
From: Edward Welbon <welbon@bga.com>
Reply-To: welbon@bga.com
To: dngo@hardees.Rutgers.EDU
cc: dave@nic.com, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199710130522.BAA26830@icarus.rutgers.edu>
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, David Ngo wrote:
> Maybe I'm just lucky, considering all the bad stuff
> I've heard about the Adaptec here and on linux-kernel. I'm very happy
> with it.
Well, my complaints were that it would eventually fail if you run Bonnie
or something else that pounds the heck out of the disks. I had to run
Bonnie for 30 times or (usually) less to get a fail. With the Buslogic
stuff, I gave up after about 128 passes on a 1GB file. The 2940UW is a
bit faster but not enough so that I was willing to put up with the fails.
These may be fixed but my patience gave up before I saw the fix. Plugged
in the Buslogic's with the same drives, cables etc. and the problems
evaporated. I am now using the Asus 875 cards and they are looking good
too. YMMV.
Ed Welbon - welbon@bga.com
