I am considering the purchase of 2 to 4 LVD 9.1 gig drives. I was going
to pair this with a BT958D.
The key is long term stability and fast performance. This is a production
level server and 'bleeding edge' may not be the solution.
The server (albeit an older box) has dual PPro200s on riser cards in a MB
that can be upgraded to P-II 350 (66 MHz limit).
I would like to use a controller that would let me take advantage of the
LVD drives. Are there any that are known to be extremely solid with
Linux? I looked at the Extreme RAID controllers but they look like they
are about 1200 bucks. I don't need all the RAID features (I will be using
the md tools for striping purposes as an experiment) though.
Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Greg
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Robert M. Hyatt wrote:
>
> I believe this is correct. At least the one BT958 I have is not
> LVDS... max transfer rate is 40mbytes/sec. My quad xeon has two of
> the symbio 53c896 scsi controllers (on board) and they definitely are
> LVDS and scream...
>
>
> Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences
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> On Tue, 4 May 1999, Jason P Schanuel wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Although I agree with your recommendation, BT-958's are not LVD
> > (AFAIK).
> >
> > http://www.mylex.com/products/multimaster/bt958_d.html
> >
> > Unfortunately I don't have a good answer for the original question.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jason
> >
> >
> > : On Tue, 4 May 1999, Y Fujimori wrote:
> > :
> > : > Dear folks,
> > : > Sorry for non-SMP topic. Could some kind soul recommend ultra2 wide
> > scsi
> > : > cards that run reliably with kernel 2.2.x? I got a cheap Seagate
> > 4.5GB
> > : > hogehoge/LW, and I plan to test it 80MB/s LVD performance.
> > : > Thanks in advance for your attention.
> > : > Regards,
> > : > Yoriaki FUJIMORI
> > : > -
> > :
> > : When in doubt, go with BusLogic/Mylex 958. May no longer be the
> > fastest,
> > : but is VERY stable and has been for a LONG time now.
> > :
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