[350] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: SCSI vs. IDE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mucci@cs.utk.edu)
Wed Jul 12 12:51:46 1995
From: mucci@cs.utk.edu
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 01:03:41 -0400
To: fpriano@ull.es, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Take this for what its worth...
Many people appear to be running successfully with the 2940. Note
that this requires one be able to d/l a patch and compile a kernel as it's not
included in the distribution.
That being said, I know one person who's been completely stumped with
his problems with the 2940. His machine stays up a day or so, then eventually
gets a General Protection Fault in the update or cron process. No-one has
any idea or leads as to what could be causing this. This implies to me, that the
2940's behavoir may be a bit different depending on the configuration of the
motherboard and the PCI BIOS. (My friend is at sistare@continuumsi.com, tell him
I sent ya' :-) That being said, a few PC magazines placed this 2940 as having
the highest-performance with the least host load (overhead). It's also available
in SCSI-III (wide) format.
From what I uderstand about the (e)ide driver, the promise card should work out
of the box (as long as you don't buy old seagate or western-digital IDE drives,
which break many drivers...) I COULD BE WRONG THOUGH! Can someone verify this?
-Phil
