12 Oct
2001
12 Oct
'01
12:18 a.m.
At 02:12 PM 10/12/01 +0100, you wrote:
I see that BIOS setup utility on the cards as a
sympthom of the low level of
integration. The cards behave as an alien entity in the computer.
Which is exactly the point :-) . SCSI cards, unlike IDE subsystems,
are supposed to work by themselves and ease the burden
on the processor. This is considered a "good thing".
Like many others, I've not had problems with the Adaptec 2940 series.
I also like a CMD card that I have somewhere; it has a 72 pin SIMM
slot to increase the cache; at one point I had a 64MB SIMM there and
it helped the web server a lot.
But the nicest one I've seen is the ibm ultra-160 raid controller
in our smp netfinity Linux server. It absolutely rocks.
Do note that I tend to use HP, Sun, DEC or IBM scsi cables.
Mac cables have given me trouble before.
carlos.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org