Re: newbie: scsi

2000-12-30 Thread Gary Mulder
James, Adaptec used to be the defacto standard card. I'm using at home an AHA-2940 with no problems. We have quite a few Linux systems using Adaptec SCSI cards at work, all with no problems. You could do a search on DejaNews for the combined keywards "problem linux " where is each of the vendor

Re: irq timeouts - CDROM

2000-12-22 Thread Gary Mulder
Most Pentium based systems have two EIDE buses. Normally if you have one hard drive and one CDROM drive you'll have each as the master device on each bus. This would result in the devices /dev/hda and /dev/hdc. This is optimal as the EIDE protocol only allows one device at a time to be active on