Bob Drzyzgula wrote:
>
> I ask this here because Buslogic Controllers seem to be
> favorites among people on these lists. I noticed that
> Computer Geeks (http://www.compgeeks.com) has a bunch of
> Buslogic controllers (BT-958, BT-950, BT-948, BT-932 and
> BT-542C) in their new arrivals section, for prices
> ranging from $42 to $119. Not being at all familiar with
> these products, I was wondering which if any of them
> y'all would recommend (a) for a personal workstation,
> for a single boot disk, CD & Tape and (b) for a
> high-utilization server, with a multi-LUN hardware
> ultra/wide RAID device out the back (both Linux, of course).
> Are there any lemons in there?
>
> Thanks,
> --Bob
>
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I have 3 BT-958 UW cards installed in our dual-Ppro-200, dual-PII-350,
and a classic-Pentium-200.
All worked from day one without a glitch. Never a problem.
I love them.
Here's my /proc/scsi/BusLogic/0 (the machine was rebooted a week or
so ago, so the numbers are quite small) :
***** BusLogic SCSI Driver Version 2.0.14 of 29 April 1998 *****
Copyright 1995-1998 by Leonard N. Zubkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Configuring BusLogic Model BT-958 PCI Wide Ultra SCSI Host Adapter
Firmware Version: 5.07B, I/O Address: 0xB400, IRQ Channel: 11/Level
PCI Bus: 0, Device: 12, Address: 0xDF800000, Host Adapter SCSI ID: 7
Parity Checking: Enabled, Extended Translation: Enabled
Synchronous Negotiation: Ultra, Wide Negotiation: Enabled
Disconnect/Reconnect: Enabled, Tagged Queuing: Enabled
Scatter/Gather Limit: 128 of 8192 segments, Mailboxes: 211
Driver Queue Depth: 211, Host Adapter Queue Depth: 192
Tagged Queue Depth: Automatic, Untagged Queue Depth: 3
Error Recovery Strategy: Default, SCSI Bus Reset: Enabled
SCSI Bus Termination: High Enabled, SCAM: Enabled, Level 1
*** BusLogic BT-958 Initialized Successfully ***
Target 0: Queue Depth 28, Synchronous at 20.0 MB/sec, offset 15
Target 1: Queue Depth 28, Wide Synchronous at 40.0 MB/sec, offset 15
Target 2: Queue Depth 28, Wide Synchronous at 40.0 MB/sec, offset 15
Target 3: Queue Depth 28, Wide Synchronous at 40.0 MB/sec, offset 15
Current Driver Queue Depth: 211
Currently Allocated CCBs: 119
DATA TRANSFER STATISTICS
Target Tagged Queuing Queue Depth Active Attempted Completed
====== ============== =========== ====== ========= =========
0 Active 28 0 2825222 2825222
1 Active 28 0 506873 506873
2 Active 28 0 1713447 1713447
3 Active 28 0 923059 923059
Target Read Commands Write Commands Total Bytes Read Total Bytes
Written
====== ============= ============== ===================
===================
0 1861735 963483 8425201664 2475352064
1 390511 116358 17533082624 8546762752
2 1317241 396202 24716141568 8465065984
3 700514 222541 13942779904 1721582592
Target Command 0-1KB 1-2KB 2-4KB 4-8KB 8-16KB
====== ======= ========= ========= ========= ========= =========
0 Read 0 220678 18129 1519885 78231
0 Write 0 766779 65430 83581 31898
1 Read 0 1600 0 86046 39642
1 Write 0 70 1 33552 9457
2 Read 0 313246 114904 187618 313682
2 Write 0 240020 30365 21745 25905
3 Read 0 224474 46026 49237 129716
3 Write 0 136631 25862 17186 20903
Target Command 16-32KB 32-64KB 64-128KB 128-256KB 256KB+
====== ======= ========= ========= ========= ========= =========
0 Read 7418 8805 8589 0 0
0 Write 6513 4812 4470 0 0
1 Read 45742 30319 187162 0 0
1 Write 4845 3781 64652 0 0
2 Read 106205 115674 165912 0 0
2 Write 10741 7969 59457 0 0
3 Read 79831 87440 83790 0 0
3 Write 8898 6365 6696 0 0
ERROR RECOVERY STATISTICS
Command Aborts Bus Device Resets Host Adapter Resets
Target Requested Completed Requested Completed Requested Completed
ID \\\\ Attempted //// \\\\ Attempted //// \\\\ Attempted ////
====== ===== ===== ===== ===== ===== ===== ===== ===== =====
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
External Host Adapter Resets: 0
Host Adapter Internal Errors: 0
HTH, Adoram
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