The Adaptec cards are always higher priced and I don't think you get
any more for the money. I suppose when you get a card for free,
you can't expect much, as with most of my Adaptec cards. The first
card my buddy from adaptec did not even have the bios support in it to
support a drive over 1 Gig. I pulled out my hair until my buddy told
me to call tech support ( a card I did not buy) and the tech man mailed
me a new bios. I do have to say the one I bought at the swap meet seems
to operating fairly well.
Oh, side note. brie.com is now a Symbios system. I just switched
over to Debian. It looks as if everything is working.
The guy at the Swap meet commented that the Initio cards work well, but
hey, he is selling them, so I take his word lightly.
brian
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 07:34:12PM +0100, Scott Tyson wrote:
> I've got 2 adaptec 2940UW cards and these are my 4th and 5th adaptec
> controlers. I never had any problems with them (I always buy retail
> version) with any OS (win95, winnt, Redhat Linux) and they ahve never
> failed on me. Another Card to concider is the Initio 9100UW. A very
> nice card that is supported by Linux.
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
>
> On 10/2/99 at 6:45 PM Brian E. Lavender scribbled:
>
> >I have made my rounds through a number of SCSI cards. My latest has
> been
> >the Symbios UW 53c875. I picked it up at the computer swap meet held
> at
> >Cal Expo and Scottish Rite. It works great. It is fast too. I use it
> with
> >an Ultra IBM drive and it rocks. You would think adaptec would be
> king,
> >but even according to my buddy who worked at adaptec for 2-1/2 years
> says
> >they are far from the best. I have had a few problems with the adaptec
> >cards. Of course many of them were ones my buddy gave me from his lab,
> >so sometimes they were prototypes with dated bios chips. Here is the
> >wierdest thing about Adaptec. The bios seems to act a bit strang and
> not
> >appear at bootup. In fact you can turn off the bios, and it is rather
> >difficult to get the configuration to come back up, so you can go into
> >it at bootup. He said the symbios is faster, so that is card I am
> using,
> >and I highly recommend it. I paid $70 for it.
> >
> >Oh yes. Not all SCSI controllers are the same. If you want a good one,
> you
> >want the bus mastering where the bios on the SCSI can fully control
> the
> >drive. Nice thing about SCSI is it can do all the I/O work and
> disconnect
> >from the bus. This is great for a multitasking environment. Thing that
> >sucks is that the drives cost for equivalent space is about twice as
> >much for SCSI. IDE drives perform fairly well too.
> >
> >Here are the SCSI controllers I have used:
> >Apaptec AIC 6360 (Dumb as hell card)
> >Adaptec 2940 W
> >Adaptec 2940 (Currently brie.com)
> >Buslogic (Worked great until I started getting errors. Another lab
> card.)
> >Symbios 53c875 UW (rocks)
> >
> >brian
> >
> >On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 01:09:37AM -0700, Daniel de Young wrote:
> >> I would really like to join the world of SCSI. This Tekram card
> seems
> >> very well featured and is compatible with Linux and FreeBSD.
> >>
> >> Any known gripes or decent reasons to spend twice as much on an
> >> Adaptec. I found this card for $67 at www.compuplus.com.
> >>
> >> thx
> >>
> >> -Daniel
> >
> >--
> >Brian Lavender
> >http://www.brie.com/brian/
>
>
> Scott Tyson
> Deepwell Quake Server admin
> tysons@deepwell.com ICQ#: 125581
> http://rand.deepwell.com/
>
>
-- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/
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