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SCSI vs. IDE

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (janl@math.uio.no)
Thu Jul 13 00:28:37 1995

From: janl@math.uio.no
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 14:32:19 +0200
To: Felix Herrera Priano <fpriano@ull.es>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Felix Herrera Priano's message of 12 Jul 1995 06:11:57 +0200

   I am thinking about the AHA 2940 SCSI controller or get a 
   PCI Promise EIDE controller with cache memory (..maybe 2Mbytes) 
   but I am not sure at all if I must go into the SCSI world.

   I know SCSI allows high data throughput and it controls more devices
   but PLEASE:

   - Do you know if the 2940 works great under Linux?. Do I really get
     big advantages using this controller?

   - What's about the Promise PCI controller?. Any experience?

Please read the relevant HOWTOs.  Available at:

  http://www.math.uio.no/doc/linux/HOWTO/html/SCSI-HOWTO.html

and 

  http://www.math.uio.no/doc/linux/HOWTO/html/PCI-HOWTO.html

Short summary of howtos: the aha2940 code is pre-alpha. Promise is not
mentioned as supported. I have good experience with Buslogic PCI, and
the PCI howto mentions NCR53c810 as very good (faster than aha2940 and
buslogic).

Nicolai

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