[Gllug] SCSI card recommendation

[Peter Corlett]

On 20 Jan 2009, at 13:34, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
> To work with CentOS 4.
> Needs to be low-profile.

More importantly, what are you connecting it to?

Narrow or wide SCSI? Single-ended, HVD or LVD? Bog standard 10MB/s, or  
Ultra 320? How many internal or external connectors? What kind of  
connector? Do you need to boot off it?

Low-profile is almost the least of your worries :)

> What have you had good results with?

Adaptec SCSI kit seems to just work for me. I can't speak for bleeding- 
edge stuff, but the less new stuff is very well-supported in Linux  
(and every other OS out there.)

eBay ID 260337421729 looks suspiciously like the half-height version  
of the card I have in my Debian box for reading data from old kit. I  
needed to spend another fiver or so on a cable to hook it to my  
antique narrow SCSI kit.

You might also wish to consider a USB SCSI adaptor, which sidesteps  
the issue of acquiring an obscure low-profile card.


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