Re: SCSI HBA recommendation

[Brett Lymn <brett.lymn%baesystems.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 03:03:49PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> 
> I just had a look at a Dell OEM one -- my neighbor has it running a rack
> full of ancient audio gear (!) -- it's an Atto.  I did not want to peel
> the Atto sticker off the IC while his system was running to see who makes
> the IC.  It appears there is also an Adaptec -- I'd steer away from that
> one unless you want to do driver spelunking.  I wonder whose chip is on
> the Atto/Dell/whoever else?
> 

Well, just to be contrary, I have not had any problems with the adaptec
cards I have.  Admittedly they are all PCI cards but they seem to do
the job for me.  I have one that drives my LTO2 tape drive decently and
I used another in a machine that was doing a paralell ACSI-33 disk wipe
of 10 - 12 disks at a time, in other words very high write/read traffic
without issues.

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