about adaptec i keep hearing that 2940's uw work just fine for scsii
controllers as described in the raid article in sysadmin mag recently.
At 11:54 AM 7/2/98 -0700, Rick Forrester wrote:
>
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>> Since you offered help with new hardware, I'll be specific. My
>> husband likes to configure new machines very "hot". He is totally
>> enamored with the ASUS-P2B-LS. This board, and every other board he
>> really likes, uses Adeptec scsi chips on the motherboard. From
>> reading the newsgroups, I've gathered that Adaptec is not very
>> helpful to Linux users--but that most of their boards/chipsets do
>> (eventually) work with Linux. If you go to scsi off the motherboard,
>> the combined price of scsi card plus
>
>Not sure that I agree with the cost issue you mention. The P2B (plain) ASUS
>mb is available for prices as low as $149.00 US (Pricewatch), and the
>Mylex/BusLogic SCSI controller card is listed on Pricewatch for $155.00 US.
>The cheapest listing I found for the P2BLS was $339, considerably higher
than
>the combined cost of the P2B & BusLogic. To have a completely fair
>comparision, though, the combination of the P2B-L and BusLogic would come to
>about $377.00 US, still only $38.00US more than the P2B-LS with it's onboard
>SCSI.
>
>The other issue you mention is the Adaptec support; Adaptec has announced,
and
>apparantly has begun, active cooperation with the kernel developers to
provide
>better support for Adaptec SCSI controllers under Linux. Not having an
>Adaptec controller, I don't know if the support is better in RH 5.1, but
would
>suspect that it is.
>
>Best
> rickf
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