Re: SCSI Ultra/Wide support

1997-03-20 Thread m*
Jason Costomiris wrote: > > I've got 9 or 10 2940UW's deployed, and I must say I'm quite satisfied > with their reliability and performance... we use two on a raid that is running 24x7 and they've have produce solid performance. we like them! m* -- "The Shining One" --

Re: SCSI Ultra/Wide support

1997-03-20 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > did anyone done a performance comparison of buslogic 958 and adaptec > > 2940? > > I don't, but I do want to say that I have a Buslogic BT958UW and I love it. I've got 9 or 10 2940UW's deployed, and I m

AHA 2940U/W, SCSI Ultra/Wide support

1997-03-20 Thread Markus Diesmann
Let me try to summarize the recent discussion about Debian support of the Adaptec AHA 2940U/W SCSI controller. There are three different opinions: 1. no problems at all 2. cable/hardware problems 3. problems with kernels above ~1.3.88 Can somebody sort this out? Thanks,

Re: SCSI Ultra/Wide support

1997-03-20 Thread Daniel Robbins
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > did anyone done a performance comparison of buslogic 958 and adaptec > 2940? I don't, but I do want to say that I have a Buslogic BT958UW and I love it. -=- Daniel Robbins School of Medicine Computer Services University of New Mexico [email:[EMAIL PR

Re: SCSI Ultra/Wide support

1997-03-19 Thread carlos
Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk) wrote on 18 March 1997 23:13: >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: > >We would like to run Debian Linux on a PC with > >all its disks connected to a > > > > Adaptec AHA 2940U/W PCI Ultra/Wide SCSI-3 > > > >controller. > > > >Does anyone have

Re: SCSI Ultra/Wide support

1997-03-19 Thread Lawrence Chim
> I have two critical machines using this card. For me everything works > fine. However, I'd buy a Buslogic 958 if possible. People report that > the 2940* extreme sensitivity to cables is somewhat substandard. Also, > the buslogic driver seems more stable and faster. Adaptec doesn't give > any hin

Re: SCSI Ultra/Wide support

1997-03-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: >We would like to run Debian Linux on a PC with >all its disks connected to a > > Adaptec AHA 2940U/W PCI Ultra/Wide SCSI-3 > >controller. > >Does anyone have experience with this controller? >Do we have to expect any problems with the dr

Re: SCSI Ultra/Wide support

1997-03-19 Thread Evan Thomas
Markus Diesmann wrote: > > We would like to run Debian Linux on a PC with > all its disks connected to a > > Adaptec AHA 2940U/W PCI Ultra/Wide SCSI-3 > > controller. > > Does anyone have experience with this controller? > Do we have to expect any problems with the driver? > > Markus I have

Re: SCSI Ultra/Wide support

1997-03-18 Thread digger vermont
I'm using one for /home and /debian (location of .deb files). Works fine for that, however I didn't take the time to try and boot from it since I have a msdo$ partition on /hda1. digger > We would like to run Debian Linux on a PC with > all its disks connected to a > > Adaptec AHA 2940U/W

SCSI Ultra/Wide support

1997-03-18 Thread Markus Diesmann
We would like to run Debian Linux on a PC with all its disks connected to a Adaptec AHA 2940U/W PCI Ultra/Wide SCSI-3 controller. Does anyone have experience with this controller? Do we have to expect any problems with the driver? Markus

SCSI Ultra/Wide support

1997-03-18 Thread Markus Diesmann
We would like to run Debian Linux on a PC with all its disks connected to a Adaptec AHA 2940U/W PCI Ultra/Wide SCSI-3 controller. Does anyone have experience with this controller? Do we have to expect any problems with the driver? Markus