Re: Adaptech 29xx in UDBs

Erik Troan (ewt@redhat.com)
Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:01:47 -0500 (EST)

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

> > 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.
>
> At this point I need to maintain a consistant environment. We already have
> some Adaptec cards here and I _know_ they'll do what I need to do (share
> one RAID 5 controller across two systems on one SCSI bus).

The problem is two Adaptecs bought after different times could have different
control chips on them (!) so you don't get a consistent environment if
you buy Adaptec.

Erik

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