[548] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Status of DPT2024 PCI controller
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralf Baechle)
Sat Aug 26 15:11:48 1995
To: submit-linux-dev-scsi@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: ralf@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de (Ralf Baechle)
Date: 26 Aug 1995 15:29:09 GMT
Reply-To: ralf@waldorf-gmbh.de
In article <9508202207.AA11735@khushi.local>, nam@khushi.ecs.umass.edu (Joonwoo Nam) writes:
|>
|> I am thinking of upgrading my SCSI controller to DPT2024 PCI.
|> PCI-HOWTO says this one is better for machine using SCSI tape drive
|> frequently. Now my question is how fast it is and how well it does
|> support various features of SCSI commands(?) like multiple simultaneous
|> commands, connect/disconnect, synchronous transfer, etc.
The author of the driver is a good personal friend of mine. I've seen
quite some mails of _satisfied_ users to him. Especially the results of
people running heavy duty news servers are surprising. The speed is very
good and the other mentioned features are also working.
|> As an off-the-topic question,
|> the lowest price I've ever seen in the computer shopper was $268.
|> Could somebody kindly direct me to the vendor(s) selling the controller
|> with a better price ?
Good host adapters are not cheap. Here in Germany you have to pay about
600DM for a DPT2024. So I don't believe you'll get it much cheaper.
Ralf
