On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 10:12, Franz Georg KÃhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Mylex sucks. > > > > huh? why? > > Firstly, performance sucks.
Bonnie++ on the Mylex cards I tested with a few years ago gave quite poor results. The performance of reading and writing large files sequentially on an array of U160 disks was significantly less than on a single cheap IDE disk. The seek times were quite good however, so doing an upgrade through dselect went fairly quickly. > Secondly, the LINUX driver is kind of "special". > While GDT controllers are recognised as scsi adapters, the Mylex driver > has it's own device naming scheme (this is, why it doesn't appear in the > SCSI submenu: it is not a scsi driver). This is annoying. But they aren't alone, there's CCISS and IDA as well. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
