PICK/LINUX and SCSI - HELP!
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Anyone sorted out what SCSI PCI cards will work with D3/Linux?
or if not - any brands of motherboards with 3 ISA slots?
Help is needed urgently - and would be much appreciated
Thankyou - GLENN
Mike Wooding
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> Hi,
>
> Anyone sorted out what SCSI PCI cards will work with D3/Linux?
> > or if not - any brands of motherboards with 3 ISA slots?
>
> Help is needed urgently - and would be much appreciated
Never had any problems with Adaptec 2940s on D3/Linux 7.1.0 and D3/Linux
7.2.0
In fact, nothing but good experiences with them.
HTH
Mike Wooding
Jared Solomon
kernel. I have had good luck with both Mylex and Adaptec.
More importantly, I have found is to make sure you buy good SCSI
drives if you're going to buy SCSI.
I believe it is Quantum Fireball that I will never buy. It is simply
a cheesy drive that can't handle a lot of hard use. Seagate and
rarely done wrong by me. IBM and Western Digital are my second and
third choices.
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:28:06 GMT, "Craystone News"
<in...@craystone.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Anyone sorted out what SCSI PCI cards will work with D3/Linux?
>
>or if not - any brands of motherboards with 3 ISA slots?
>
>Help is needed urgently - and would be much appreciated
>
>Thankyou - GLENN
>
>gl...@craystone.com
>
>
>
>
Ryengoth
"Craystone News" <in...@craystone.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone sorted out what SCSI PCI cards will work with D3/Linux?
>
> or if not - any brands of motherboards with 3 ISA slots?
>
> Help is needed urgently - and would be much appreciated
>
> Thankyou - GLENN
>
> gl...@craystone.com
>
Any Adaptec, Mylex, or DPT SCSI controller should work fine.
Performance is a totally seperate issue. As far as motherboards:
Any of FIC's mainboards with/without the Adaptec 2940 onboard work
fine with Red Hat. If you have a specific board or card in mind, be
sure to visit Red Hat's website and look at 'Hardware Compatibility'
for the RH version you're installing. I, personally, do not like
integrated boards. They're hard to troubleshoot and upgrading a certain
"component" requires a whole new board. I prefer seperate cards.
Ryengoth
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Before you buy.
Richard Ginsburg
> Any Adaptec, Mylex, or DPT SCSI controller should work fine.
Wrong! The Adaptec 2910, 2920, and 2930 controllers do not work with Linux.
The 2906 and 2940 series are the best choices.
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<in...@craystone.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Anyone sorted out what SCSI PCI cards will work with D3/Linux?
>
>or if not - any brands of motherboards with 3 ISA slots?
>
>Help is needed urgently - and would be much appreciated
>
>Thankyou - GLENN
>
>gl...@craystone.com
>
Hi,
all Adaptec, NCR and GDT Controller are working with Linux,
you have to include then modules, or build a new kernel.
regards
Claus
Ryengoth
"Richard Ginsburg" <fawn...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Ryengoth <webm...@allspec.com> wrote in message
> > Any Adaptec, Mylex, or DPT SCSI controller should work fine.
>
> Wrong! The Adaptec 2910, 2920, and 2930 controllers do not work with
Linux.
> The 2906 and 2940 series are the best choices.
The 2920 works with the "Future Domain" driver on 5.2 as far as
Red Hat shows for Tier 2. I have no idea if it'll work for 2910 and
2930.
Maybe I should've said "most" instead of "any" because the Mylex
DAC960 PCI Raid controller will not work at all. As always, check with
the hardware guide on redhat.com to make sure there's support already in
the version that's being installed. There are fully and partially
supported devices as well as compatible but not supported. Some devices
work fine with Linux kernels 2.x+ but they need special attention to
get them running. Just because RH doesn't find it during install doesn't
mean it won't work at all. My DPT 2144W raid controller is partially
supported via EATA. You have to tell the kernel about it by using
expert install. I've never had a single problem with my RAID-1 setup.
Anthony W. Youngman
>Ryengoth <webm...@allspec.com> wrote in message
>> Any Adaptec, Mylex, or DPT SCSI controller should work fine.
>
>Wrong! The Adaptec 2910, 2920, and 2930 controllers do not work with Linux.
>The 2906 and 2940 series are the best choices.
Don't know how good they are (they're cheap), but Iwill advertise linux
drivers for most of their cards, and if you look in the buslogic driver
source I think it says "Copyright Buslogic" ...
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Ryengoth wrote in message <8jdccp$jm2$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>In article <8jd6e9$tmq$1...@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net>,
> "Richard Ginsburg" <fawn...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>> Ryengoth <webm...@allspec.com> wrote in message
>> > Any Adaptec, Mylex, or DPT SCSI controller should work fine.
>>
>> Wrong! The Adaptec 2910, 2920, and 2930 controllers do not work with
>Linux.
>> The 2906 and 2940 series are the best choices.
>
Michael T. Babcock
RedHat based products, see:
http://www.redhat.com/support/hardware/
Pick the relevant version. For D3/7.x, its usually RedHat 6.1.
For the last version of Proplus I saw, its based on RedHat version 4.2.