On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Craig Morehouse wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:03:39 -0400, Ferris McCormick wrote: > > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Craig Morehouse wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 22:54:48 -0400, Ben Collins wrote: <...> > >> > > >> > 1) The early IDE line. E.g. Ultra 5 or 10. The reason being that the > >> > machines are cheap to maintain and offer decent performance. > >> > > >> > 2) PCI SCSI based systems. E.g. Ultra 2, 30, 60. If you're interested > >> > in SMP based systems, the 2 and 60 are the way to go. Debian's > >> > primary archive (aka ftp-master, aka auric) is an Ultra60 with dual > >> > 450mhz cpu's, 1.5 gigs of ram and a ~240gig raid5 > > > > For what it's worth, my experience with Linux (Debian & SuSE) on an > > Ultra10 suggests that if you are going to stress the disk much at all, > > on such a system, you will want to use one of your expansion slots for a > > SCSI card. Others will have better information, though. > > > > Regards, > > Ferris > > > > This makes much sense. I use SCSI on all the important Intel boxes. > > One question, though, which SCSI cards work best on UltraSparcs and > Debian? > > Thanks. >
I have an Ultra10 with a card the system identifies as: 02:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly NCR) 53c875 (rev 04) Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 6646528 I/O ports at 2000400 Memory at fffff9ff00002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Memory at fffff9ff00004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Expansion ROM at 0000000000040000 [disabled] with external SCSI-III disk(s). It uses the <sym53c8xx.o> scsi driver, which David S. Miller called "one of the best scsi drivers in the tree" in response to a similar question last April on the <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org> mailing list. It's worked fine for me for about 9 months now. In the interest of full disclosure: Debian installs fine for me over this driver, but for various compatibility reasons, my primary OS on this system is SuSE 7.3. I don't know why that should matter at the driver level, though, since that should be independent from whose name is on the release(?) Regards, -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: (703) 392-0303 Fax: (703) 392-0401 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]