Hello wise people of debian-user, Apologies for the off-topic post but in my experience, debian-user seems to encompass the more intelligent of the human species and seem to be able to answer almost any question.
I have decided to take the first steps into the world of SCSI and have bought three 2gb hard drives (on impulse which was probably not a good start). I am now looking to buy a pci scsi card and the cheapest one I found was the tekram 315U (£30). I also intend to have an IDE hard drive so the no-boot part is OK. Is this card generally well supported in the 2.4 range kernels and are there any things in particular that I have to look out for while taking on this endeavour. Also, is this a generally good card and does striping provide decent performance improvements (im thinking of using lvm) FYI - I would intend to run one of the recent 2.4 kernels, the machine is AMD 1.1GHz and has 256Mb RAM. This is not going to be a production machine - just a home machine. I do realise that I dont NEED this but am keen to learn more about scsi and get a high performance system. Sorry for the long post - all opinions welcome and appreciated. Regards, Shri
