[Gllug] SCSI Cards.

[Tushar Joshi]

But are scsi CD/RW better than burn proof IDE ones? I have a SCSI cdwriter
and scsi hard disk and get buffer overruns sometimes at 16 speed. I know
disk activity is faster on scsi but I would think that with new cd writers
being burn proof, it might be better to get IDE? I'd be interested in
comparing my scsi writer to a burn proof one though.

Also anyone used those Mylex raid controllers, they seem to use the solaris
convention of labelling disks rather than /dev/sda etc they use
/dev/dsk/c0..., 

I've been using Advansis for years now and recommend them over adapcrap. 

Tushar

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:44:09PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On 1/9/02, 2:24:13 PM, tet at accucard.com wrote regarding Re: [Gllug] SCSI 
> Cards. :
> 
> 
> > As for the others, I'd wholeheartedly recommend Advansys cards. Superb
> > Linux support, great performance, and utterly reliable. I've also had
> > success with Kewell cards (which use an Initio chipset).
> 
> See, Harry?  It's not just me and Christian playing a joke on you.  And 
> there's the bonus that there's only one advansys scsi module for all 
> their cards (unlike certain other manufactures beginning with adapt and 
> ending in ec), making life a little simpler.
> 
> > PS. Oh yes... be prepared to be labelled a SCSI bigot by people who
> >     don't believe it's any better than IDE. Serial ATA may remedy
> >     many of IDE's shortcomings, but it's not here yet. SCSI is, and
> >     is stable and mature.
> 
> And setting up SCSI devices is so much easier because the hardware is far 
> more intelligent.  So there's only one scsi tape module, one scsi hard 
> disk module etc. because the scsi hardware reports its capabilities in a 
> standard fashion.
> 
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> 
> Bruce
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