[ale] Adaptec 2930U vs 2940U for HP DAT24i

Mon Jan 7 22:57:31 EST 2002

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:40:41PM -0500, Gary MacKay wrote:
> >From what I can read in the spec's, the Adaptec 2930U card should handle
> the HP DAT24i just fine right? They are only about $80 instead of over
> $200 for the 2940U. 

Why use something as expensive as an Adaptec controller anyway?
If you are just going to hang a tape drive off this second controller
why not use something as simple and inexpensive as a Symbios 53C810
card? I have seen them for ~ $30
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Steven A. DuChene		linux-clusters at mindspring.com
				sad at echelonsupercompute.com

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