> which controller is the better one. Do some people with experience with
> both controllers have any comment on which one I should use to drive my
> RAID?
I've used the 53c875 controller built into Intel motherboards--I can't
really tell any difference between it and the Adaptec controllers.
> The drives in question are actually U2W drives, but it was my
> understanding that the aic78xx driver doesn't yet support the 80MB/s
> transfer rates. True, or not?
I don't think that's true--the aic78xx driver prints out "80mb/sec" for
LVD drives when it scans the bus.
Brian