[ale] Recommendations for a SCSI-2 card?

[Raylynn.Knight at choicepoint.net]

What is your current SCSI controller?  In most cases it's more efficient to
have your second controller use the same driver as your primary controller.
So if your current controller is an Adaptec, stick with Adaptec.  If your
current controller is based on a Symbios Logic chipset stick with
controllers that use that chipset.

Ray




Hi folks -- a SCSI newbie here, as you'll soon see.

I'm building servers that have Ultra160 hard drives and an Ultra160
backup drive, and I ignorantly included a SCSI-2 DVD/CD-ROM drive on the
same chain.  (Duhhhh!  Why won't my hard drives go any faster?  Duhhhh!)

So to prevent the chain from downgrading to the speed of that drive, I'm
planning to add a simple PCI SCSI-2 card to handle the DVD/CD drive.

Any recommendations (Tekram? Adaptec? Other brand? What model?) would be
very welcome.

Ben







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