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Re: Sound PCI SCSI solution?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
Sun Sep 3 16:47:53 1995

To: mj@morannon.fido.de (Martin Junius)
cc: submit-linux-dev-scsi@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "03 Sep 1995 10:42:43 +0200."
             <42bpq3$l0u@morannon.fido.de> 
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 10:16:38 -0600
From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@poohsticks.org>

>- Then I thought that maybe getting an Adaptec 2940 controller might 
>  solve my problems. But browsing thru comp.os.linux.* I read that the 
>  new driver in the 1.3.x kernel is not entirely stable and that there 
>  are subtle problems with Quantum drives in general, the 2100S in 
>  particular. :-(
>  
>So I'm sort of stuck. Is there any PCI SCSI controller with a totally 
>stable and working LINUX driver? 

The closest you're going to get is a Buslogic BT946 or  956

>Or is there a general problem with Quantum drives?

No, but there's a problem with your drive, which has developed bad blocks.

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