On 9 Jul 2003, Joe Phillips wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 00:28, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a good solid SCSI card that works with Linux and > > tape backaups. > > I don't have powerpc hardware (yet) so I can only speak on my x86 + scsi > experiences (note e-double's recent issues!)... We almost exclusively > use Adaptec scsi controllers in our Linux/OpenBSD boxen. I have had > good luck with various models from 1542s through recent 7xxx both > on-board and add-on controllers. I can't say I've had any bad > experiences with adaptec controllers - certainly not recently.
One thing to watch out for _any_ PCI cards. If they have on-board BIOS intended to run on an IA32 system, don't expect the BIOS to be any good on your MAC. The AIC7xxx devices do have on-board firmware, but I think they have their own onbard processor too. It would be good to ask on the Linux-kernel mailing list (and report back here). Last I looked (which was a while about) the Adaptec bloke maintains the Linux (and BSD) driver and hangs out there. Besides that, if anyone knows, be sure the kernel hackers do;-) -- Cheers John Summerfield Please, no off-list mail at all at all. This address accepts mail only from Debian addresses.
