[OT] Whitch adaptec SCSI card?
Hai, I'm running Debian with a 2.0.36 kernel. I want to upgrade my system to the following: 12..18Gb HD DAT Tape Backup system SCSI card for connecting both. Witch SCSI card is best supported, and whitch DAT type is best supported? Where can I find the doc's on witch HF is supported under Debian? Best Regards, Ries van Twisk Frank's International Holland.
Re: [OT] Whitch adaptec SCSI card?
Ries van Twisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running Debian with a 2.0.36 kernel. I want to upgrade my system to the following: 12..18Gb HD DAT Tape Backup system SCSI card for connecting both. Witch SCSI card is best supported, and whitch DAT type is best supported? Where can I find the doc's on witch HF is supported under Debian? Ries, Adaptec cards are everywhere, and are supported by everybody. My problem with Adaptec cards is that they are very sensitive to cable troubles. I have replaced cables more times than I would like to admit. If you do use an Adaptec card, use the very best cables money can buy. Or you can use Mylex (aka Bus Logic) cards which are reputed not to be so sensitive to cabling. Linux does support them. I think Windows 9x also supports them, but someone else will have to confirm that. -- David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support should be free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hoping that this is all of the above) On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Ries van Twisk wrote: -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [OT] Whitch adaptec SCSI card?
I'm running Debian with a 2.0.36 kernel. I want to upgrade my system to the following: 12..18Gb HD DAT Tape Backup system SCSI card for connecting both. Witch SCSI card is best supported, and whitch DAT type is best supported? Where can I find the doc's on witch HF is supported under Debian? I use a ncr810 chip-based scsi-card (with a 3.1Gb HD and a CD-ROM player) this card is very cheap and works OK (although this combination is not bootable, therefore I added an old IDE-disk) Joop
Re: [OT] Whitch adaptec SCSI card?
On 1999-04-26 08:53, David B.Teague wrote: Or you can use Mylex (aka Bus Logic) cards which are reputed not to be so sensitive to cabling. Linux does support them. I think Windows 9x also supports them, but someone else will have to confirm that. I'll gladly recommend Mylex BusLogic 958B which is an ultra wide, 15 devices, narrow/wide/wide external (notice only 2 out of 3 work at the same time as is mostly the case) host adapter. It's fast, worked flawlessly here (except a problem with putting a narrow scanner on the wide external port - that's not considered legal scsi, the author of the driver tells me!). Mylex has _excellent_ tech support, although no Linux specific support (which they refer to the driver author - he responded to the above problem within 1/2 hour by email!). I have had next to no problems with cables, but (in my defense) I got (expensive) teflon cable when I grew out of the provided (teflon) cable. Mylex tells me that telfon cable is _required_ for Ultra operation. If you want to spend a bundle on the host adaptor check out (the company) DPT? I have no experience with their products (drivers and such) but some of their cards are upgradeable to (hardware) RAID. Also, you might want to consider the impact of LVD (low-voltage differential). /Allan -- Allan M. Wind Phone: 781.938.5272 (home) 687 Main Street, 2nd Floor Fax:781.938.6641 (fax/modem) Woburn, MA 01801Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home)
Re: [OT] Whitch adaptec SCSI card?
I'm using a Buslogic BT-958 for more then a year now. I'm very happy with. At that time I choosed it instead of Adaptec because of a lot of problems people had with Adaptec cards. I don't say there are still problems with Adaptec but my next card will be Buslogic (Mylex). For the record: I don't own any shares of Mylex. Just a happy user. Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 08:53:03 -0400 (EDT) From: David B.Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ries van Twisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [OT] Whitch adaptec SCSI card? Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Ries van Twisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running Debian with a 2.0.36 kernel. I want to upgrade my system to the following: 12..18Gb HD DAT Tape Backup system SCSI card for connecting both. Witch SCSI card is best supported, and whitch DAT type is best supported? Where can I find the doc's on witch HF is supported under Debian? Ries, Adaptec cards are everywhere, and are supported by everybody. My problem with Adaptec cards is that they are very sensitive to cable troubles. I have replaced cables more times than I would like to admit. If you do use an Adaptec card, use the very best cables money can buy. Or you can use Mylex (aka Bus Logic) cards which are reputed not to be so sensitive to cabling. Linux does support them. I think Windows 9x also supports them, but someone else will have to confirm that. -- David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support should be free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hoping that this is all of the above)
Re: [OT] Whitch adaptec SCSI card?
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 04:55:38PM +0200, Larry de Graaf wrote: I am rather fond of the Symbios 875 they are cheap, they are fast, and the driver is very stable. I have heard great things about the newer versions of this card also, don't know how cheap those are though. I'm using a Buslogic BT-958 for more then a year now. I'm very happy with. At that time I choosed it instead of Adaptec because of a lot of problems people had with Adaptec cards. I don't say there are still problems with Adaptec but my next card will be Buslogic (Mylex). For the record: I don't own any shares of Mylex. Just a happy user. Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 08:53:03 -0400 (EDT) From: David B.Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ries van Twisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [OT] Whitch adaptec SCSI card? Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Ries van Twisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running Debian with a 2.0.36 kernel. I want to upgrade my system to the following: 12..18Gb HD DAT Tape Backup system SCSI card for connecting both. Witch SCSI card is best supported, and whitch DAT type is best supported? Where can I find the doc's on witch HF is supported under Debian? Ries, Adaptec cards are everywhere, and are supported by everybody. My problem with Adaptec cards is that they are very sensitive to cable troubles. I have replaced cables more times than I would like to admit. If you do use an Adaptec card, use the very best cables money can buy. Or you can use Mylex (aka Bus Logic) cards which are reputed not to be so sensitive to cabling. Linux does support them. I think Windows 9x also supports them, but someone else will have to confirm that. -- David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support should be free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hoping that this is all of the above) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - -
Re: [OT] Whitch adaptec SCSI card?
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Allan M. Wind wrote: [ snip ] : If you want to spend a bundle on the host adaptor check out : (the company) DPT? I have no experience with their products : (drivers and such) but some of their cards are upgradeable to : (hardware) RAID. I'll happily recommend DPT for a non-cheap RAID solution. If you're building a serious server it's a great way to go. Overkill for home use, I'd think :) -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
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Thanx for the fast response, Dell is currently offering a PowerEdge 1300. 18Gb Ultra-2/LVD SCSI HD. Adaptec AIC-7890 Ultra-2/LVD SCSI Controller (inergrated) DDS-3 DAT-Drive 12/24GB SCSI-3 I will call them about the of they can offer my an other SCSI Controler. I haven't talked to the support engineer yet. Hopefully I know this by tomorrow. I'll let you know If this is a working situation. (Currently working with a PII 64Mb, 2Gb HD, we are going foreward with Debian!! Using: Sendmail, ProcMail, PostGres (testing), FetchMail, Diald, Samba Soon will create roaming profiles for the Win95 workstations) Best Regards, Ries van Twisk
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On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Ries van Twisk wrote: : Thanx for the fast response, : : Dell is currently offering a PowerEdge 1300. : : 18Gb Ultra-2/LVD SCSI HD. : Adaptec AIC-7890 Ultra-2/LVD SCSI Controller (inergrated) This should be supported, especially by newer kernels. I know that the AIC-7895 on-board controllers are supported, because I installed Debian on such a machine last week. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
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Thanx for the fast response, Dell is currently offering a PowerEdge 1300. 18Gb Ultra-2/LVD SCSI HD. Adaptec AIC-7890 Ultra-2/LVD SCSI Controller (inergrated) it should work i believe - penguincomputing is offering linux worktations with 789x controllers OK
Re: [OT] Whitch adaptec SCSI card?
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Ries van Twisk wrote: Dell is currently offering a PowerEdge 1300. 18Gb Ultra-2/LVD SCSI HD. Adaptec AIC-7890 Ultra-2/LVD SCSI Controller (inergrated) DDS-3 DAT-Drive 12/24GB SCSI-3 I will call them about the of they can offer my an other SCSI Controler. I haven't talked to the support engineer yet. Hopefully I know this by tomorrow. The controller is integrated into the motherboard, so it's unlikely that you'll get them to change it. However, that SCSI controller is (I believe) what Dell delivers in their Poweredge 2200's that I install Debian 1.3.3 on without any problems. I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention. Are you having problems or are you anticipating them? -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA
