anything with the symbios chipset works fine, at least here. A year ago
I had serious problems using an adaptec controller with SMP and replaced
it with the bt958, which worked perfectly. And more recently my quad xeon
came with three symbios scsi channels (2 16 bit and 1 8 bit) that also
work fine. I have heard from others that use controllers with the symbios
chipset but for the life of me can't recall the name of the board that
uses them (a PCI slot version) although it was reported to work well.
LVDS is pretty fast, for sure...
Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences
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On Tue, 4 May 1999, greg wrote:
> I am considering the purchase of 2 to 4 LVD 9.1 gig drives. I was going
> to pair this with a BT958D.
>
> The key is long term stability and fast performance. This is a production
> level server and 'bleeding edge' may not be the solution.
>
> The server (albeit an older box) has dual PPro200s on riser cards in a MB
> that can be upgraded to P-II 350 (66 MHz limit).
>
> I would like to use a controller that would let me take advantage of the
> LVD drives. Are there any that are known to be extremely solid with
> Linux? I looked at the Extreme RAID controllers but they look like they
> are about 1200 bucks. I don't need all the RAID features (I will be using
> the md tools for striping purposes as an experiment) though.
>
> Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Greg
>
> On Tue, 4 May 1999, Robert M. Hyatt wrote:
>
> >
> > I believe this is correct. At least the one BT958 I have is not
> > LVDS... max transfer rate is 40mbytes/sec. My quad xeon has two of
> > the symbio 53c896 scsi controllers (on board) and they definitely are
> > LVDS and scream...
> >
> >
> > Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alabama at Birmingham
> > (205) 934-2213 115A Campbell Hall, UAB Station
> > (205) 934-5473 FAX Birmingham, AL 35294-1170
> >
> > On Tue, 4 May 1999, Jason P Schanuel wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > Although I agree with your recommendation, BT-958's are not LVD
> > > (AFAIK).
> > >
> > > http://www.mylex.com/products/multimaster/bt958_d.html
> > >
> > > Unfortunately I don't have a good answer for the original question.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Jason
> > >
> > >
> > > : On Tue, 4 May 1999, Y Fujimori wrote:
> > > :
> > > : > Dear folks,
> > > : > Sorry for non-SMP topic. Could some kind soul recommend ultra2 wide
> > > scsi
> > > : > cards that run reliably with kernel 2.2.x? I got a cheap Seagate
> > > 4.5GB
> > > : > hogehoge/LW, and I plan to test it 80MB/s LVD performance.
> > > : > Thanks in advance for your attention.
> > > : > Regards,
> > > : > Yoriaki FUJIMORI
> > > : > -
> > > :
> > > : When in doubt, go with BusLogic/Mylex 958. May no longer be the
> > > fastest,
> > > : but is VERY stable and has been for a LONG time now.
> > > :
> > > : Jiann-Ming Su "People seldom do what they believe
> > > in. They do
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> > > repent." --Bob Dylan
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