Hi,
I'm using a tyan thunder X dual Xeon 450 with a built-on Adaptec
AIC-7896 chipset. It's dual channel, SMP, and totally stable... not a
single worry. I would HIGHLY recommend it.
Kenneth P. Persing
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On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Chris Mauritz wrote:
> > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Sep 7 11:50:39 1999
> >
> > What is the most reliable LVD SCSI controler for Linux ?
> >
> > (I use several Buslogic controlers, but as far as I know they don't
> > have an LVD version, which is absolutely necessary for long SCSI chains,
> > and my Buslogic controlers went in an infinite reset loop several times,
> > which raid cannot protect against.
> > I also tested a Mylex AcceleRAID with it's integrated raid software,
> > but it's expensive and not very flexible (you cannot remotely change
> > the raid configuration since the raid configuration program is
> > accessed at boot time only, and as far as I know, you cannot have
> > different scsi chanels use different scsi speeds, and you cannot
> > have a raid set involving disks on several controlers), and lastly
> > their raid sofware is not open so it's hard to trust them. On the
> > other hand, I believe that you can add drives to existing raid sets.)
>
> Normally, I'm a hardcore Buslogic/Mylex supporter, but I've found
> myself in exactly your predicament. I settled on a pile of single
> channel Adaptec U2W controllers and haven't had any issues with
> Redhat 6.0. It seems the Adaptec drivers have gotten better over
> time and they even seem stable with SMP boxes (which wasn't the
> case even a year ago). I'm about to try creating rather huge
> raid 0 and raid 5 sets with 4 50gig barracudas per controller.
>
> I'll post the results to the list. I'm very optimistic about
> the performance given early testing on small numbers of drives.
>
> Chris
>
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> Christopher Mauritz
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