--On February 9, 2007 3:54:06 PM -0800 "Aaron J. Grier"
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On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 03:22:28PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote:
I can't recommend LSI Logic SCSI cards. The drivers in atleast 2.6
Linux are pretty ugly.
on the (NetBSD) flip side, I've had better experience with the NCR/LSI
(esiop) drivers than adaptec (ahc). the adaptec seems to give up pretty
easily on errors, and while it doesn't panic the kernel, it goes
comatose until a reboot.
who else is still making SCSI chipsets these days?
The LSI cards I've seen recently, in Linux land, are usign the symbios
drivers. Specifically the sym53c8xx_2 drivers in 2.6, and the sym53c8xx in
2.4, both equally bad. 2.6 Linux has other problems, like inabiltiy to
change/set compression without a tape loaded, same problem if you issue a
rewind or...i think anything other than a status command via mt to a tape
drive, if there's no tape loaded it'll sit there forever, no CTRL+C
response or anything. Might be debian specific, not really sure.
I don't think anyone else is really left AFAIK. :( Sad.
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