Re: Adaptech 29xx in UDBs

Erik Troan (ewt@redhat.com)
Thu, 31 Oct 1996 19:54:52 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Joshua M. Thompson wrote:

> Do the Adaptec 2940 series cards work OK in the UDBs? I have a need for
> two SCSI busses on our news server and I'd like to throw an Adaptec card
> in there. Initially I'm gonna use the 2940U that I have lying around, but
> eventually I want to add the 2940UW (wide) because all the drives in our
> RAID 5 array are wide units.

Don't get 2940 cards for Linux, period. Adaptec does not cooperate with
Linux developers and change the composition of their boards w/o telling
anyone. If you want a good SCSI card, I strongly suggest you get a
Buslogic or Qlogic card -- both companies support Linux developers.

Erik

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