> i have not used adaptec 160 cards, but i have found most everything else they
> make to be very finicky about cabling and termination, and have had hard
> drives give trouble on adaptec that worked fine on other cards.
>
> my money stays with a lsi/symbios/ncr based card. tekram is a good vendor, and
> symbios themselves have a nice 64 bit wide, dual channel pci scsi card.
can you tell me the model number on that card?
> which does lead to the point about pci. even _IF_ you could get the entire pci
> bus to do your disk transfers, you will find that you would still need more
> bandwidth for stuff like using your nics.
right.
> so, i suggest you investigate a motherboard with either 66mhz pci or 64 bit
> pci, or both. perhaps alpha?
the money I would spend on an alpha precludes that option
But some of dell's server systems support 64bit buses.
thanks
-sv
