On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does someone know whatsup with Mylex ? Rumor I heard today was supply problems from the company they get their SCSI chips from. Supposedly there's a problem in the production of the U160's and I guess they'd abandoned the U2's figuring the market had moved on to U160. > I need to build 2 new servers, but i can't find any shop that can sell me > a Mylex Extremeraid. Welcome to the "we want mylex cards, but can't find any club". > So what are my options ? Something else. I was back to thinking about ICP-Vortex, but then today heard about Adaptec's new line. Then someone from VA mentioned the new Adaptec driver might not be entirely stable...and I don't even know yet where it comes from. I suspect it's a patch/new files done by someone at Adaptec to be added into the 2.2 kernels > I need a fast raid card. > I looked at dpt(adaptec) but all their have 100mhz cpu's on it (vs the > 233mhz cpu on the Extremeraids) You're comparing a 233 StrongArm to a 100 i960. I don't know much about either CPU, but I don't know that you can meaningfully compare them based on clock rate alone. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *[EMAIL PROTECTED]*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
