On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Dave Fitch wrote:
> I need a cheap PCI scsi card with at least one external
> 50 pin high density connector ("honda 50").
> It must work in linux, of course.
Why 50 pin? Most external connectors these days are 68 pin. What kind of
devices are you wanting to connect?
> I've found the Symbios ones (as sold by Len Chan)
> but the cheap one ($90 or so) doesn't have a BIOS
> on the card meaning you can't boot from a disk
> (or cd) attached to it.
>
> So anyone know of one that does have a BIOS but
> is still cheap? (I know there's the Adaptec 2940
> that fits the bill but it's $380 new - there must
> be other brands surely!).
If you can find a dealer {good luck! I went straight to the distributor!},
then the Advansys ones are great. I bought the Ultra wide version for my
Linux box for about $220 - when the equivalent Adaptec card was retailing
OEM for $480. And it didn't need a kernel recompile {from the default RH
kernel} to work.
DaZZa
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