SCSI connectivity

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon Mar 12 01:49:45 2001

Well, you've had better luck that I've had with ADAPTEC PCI products. I just
recently threw out a box of 18 or so 2940AU's none having been used for more
than three months and all dead.

Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carlos Murillo" <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: SCSI connectivity


> At 10:45 AM 3/11/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >From: "Jeff Hellige" <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
> >To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> >Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 10:14 AM
> >Subject: Re: SCSI connectivity
> >> Yes, I liked the 1522A that I had. Never had any problems
> >> out of it once I upgraded the ROM so that I could use the whole 2gig
> >> of the IBM 0662 hard disk I was trying to plug up to it. I didn't
> >> care much for thier prep/format software under Windows though.
> >>
> >2 gig's??? The two '0662's I have right here are both 1 GB. Are there
> different
> >models? I've used 'em together with larger drives but they've always
> claimed to
> >be 1 GB drives, which is what they claimed when they were new. They are
> about
> >the best 3-1/2" SCSI drives I've used, in that there's never a problem and
> they
> >always behave just as expected
>
> I like these drives too; they are one of the few scsi drives in which
> I know how to set the jumpers so the drive doesn't initiate sync
> negotiation; this is important for many computers from the '90 vintage,
> as their ROMS did not like the drives initiating the negotiation.
>
> >If you think an Adaptec ROM update will help with that, i.e. making them 2
> GB, I
> >think you'll be disappointed.
> >>
> >> >In general, I'd say that if you can find an alternative to ADAPTEC, at
> least
> >> >with their PCI products, I'd use the alternative.
>
> I haven't had a lot of experience with other PCI products. I have
> a CMD 6520 which works ok, although Linux did not seem to like it.
> Nice utilities in the BIOS, such as sector-wise duplication. It also
> has a 72 pin SIMM slot for a disk cache as large as 32MB, I think.
> I have a RAID controller by IBM in a big Linux box at work.
> _Very_ nice. However, the drivers for RedHat 7.0 have not surfaced
> yet, so we're running a heavily patched 6.2 .
>
> I have used many adaptec controllers, 1522, 2740, 2842, 3940UWDPI
> (dual channel; nice), 2940, 2940U, 2940U2. Never had a real problem
> with any of them. Upgrading the BIOS is usually a good idea, though.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
>
>
Received on Mon Mar 12 2001 - 01:49:45 GMT