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Re: Best SCSI card
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Paul Morrison)
Sat Oct 28 20:37:54 1995
From: John Paul Morrison <jmorriso@ConcordPacific.com>
To: ehill@empros.com (Erik Hill)
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 12:04:55 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9510272009.AA17543@ems.empros.com> from "Erik Hill" at Oct 27, 95 03:05:34 pm
>
> I am selling my current SCSI card (always 7000) and am going to buy an
> Adaptec with the purpose of running Linux. I need to know which is the
> best SCSI card. The price should hover around $200, it needs to work
> well with Linux, and, with those two specifications in mind, which is
> best? Note: I haven't actually committed to the Adaptec yet, so any
> ideas are useful. Oh yes -- QLogic is out of the picture. I already
> owned one and it doesn't work with my NexGen motherboard. The
> motherboard has a VLB.
The Adaptec PCI and VLB cards are relatively stable enough for
hard-disks and CDROMs on a lightly loaded machine, but I've had BIG
problems with tape drives. But on a busy server, the Adaptec's
regularly hang.
The Buslogics (PCI anyway) have been rock solid on my machines: heavy
harddisk use, tape drive etc. BTW I'm using Leonard Zubkoff's Buslogic
patches.
>
> Erik
>
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