[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Since you offered help with new hardware, I'll be specific. My
> husband likes to configure new machines very "hot". He is totally
> enamored with the ASUS-P2B-LS. This board, and every other board he
> really likes, uses Adeptec scsi chips on the motherboard. From
> reading the newsgroups, I've gathered that Adaptec is not very
> helpful to Linux users--but that most of their boards/chipsets do
> (eventually) work with Linux. If you go to scsi off the motherboard,
> the combined price of scsi card plus
Not sure that I agree with the cost issue you mention. The P2B (plain) ASUS
mb is available for prices as low as $149.00 US (Pricewatch), and the
Mylex/BusLogic SCSI controller card is listed on Pricewatch for $155.00 US.
The cheapest listing I found for the P2BLS was $339, considerably higher than
the combined cost of the P2B & BusLogic. To have a completely fair
comparision, though, the combination of the P2B-L and BusLogic would come to
about $377.00 US, still only $38.00US more than the P2B-LS with it's onboard
SCSI.
The other issue you mention is the Adaptec support; Adaptec has announced, and
apparantly has begun, active cooperation with the kernel developers to provide
better support for Adaptec SCSI controllers under Linux. Not having an
Adaptec controller, I don't know if the support is better in RH 5.1, but would
suspect that it is.
Best
rickf
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