I've got the motherboard chipset equivilant of a 2940u2w and a second 2940u2w card in my system. The former supports all the internal drives and the latter supports the external ones. The adaptecs are a little finicky about drive connections and especially about termination, but once you get a wiring solution that works, they never *die*. (yeah, I could support the cdrom burner without its own card, but I used to have a SCSI scanner that made the chain too long, so...) My only complaint is it takes *forever* for these cards to initialise at boot time. I've also had good luck with tekram SCSI boards, although I've never used anything beyond fast scsi with them. They're quick, they're cheap, and they initialize very quickly. Unfortunately for me when I was acquiring my second scsi board, the BeOS driver situation pretty much limited you to adaptec. (it's better now, this was a while ago) Since I seem to recall this topic started out talking about 1542Bs, let me say those cards are indistructable. I ran one I got used in my linux server for 5 years - total card age probably close to 10, so it's on topic) and replaced it only because I was concerned that I could no longer get spares, and if this server dies I need to be able to fix it quick. They're a pain to set up - you have to go into debug to kick off the onboard utilities, unlike the later cards where you can do it from the keyboard - but they work. -- Jim Strickland jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- BeOS Powered! -----------------------------------------------------------------------