Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 04:40:27 -0500 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>, "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: SCSI card recommendations Message-ID: <005501c16db9$8ee47a00$6600000a@ach.domain> In-Reply-To: <003d01c16db5$e272b140$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Note: Reply text moved to bottom to preserve context. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Anthony > Atkielski > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 4:14 AM > To: Charles Burns; FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: SCSI card recommendations > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> > To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 08:58 > Subject: SCSI card recommendations > > > I notice that the only difference listed on the Adaptec website > betweenthe > > Ultra-160 29160N and the 19160 is OS compatibility. The cheaper one, of > > course, being less compatible. The 19160 IS listed in hardware.txt. Are > > there any real differences between the two? > > Is it real modem VS Winmodem, or AthlonXP vs AthlonMP (Only > difference is > > price and official support--identical hardware) > > > > Additionally, are there any more recommended Ultra160 cards in the > > $200(internet price) range? The card must support internal wide > ultra SCSI > > and narrow ultra SCSI for my CD-ROM drives, and of course > internal U160 SCSI > > for the SCSI hard drive that I will probably never actually buy. > > I tried to install a 29160N and it generated spurious interrupts > and parity > errors. Anthony, it wasn't connected to a Seagate drive by any chance, was it? That combination has been known to be volatile for some time now. > I don't think this was a hardware defect, just a > consequence of having > a card that was too fast for the rest of the machine. I somehow find that hard to believe, unless you tried to put this card in maybe a 486 or a Socket 5 Pentium... > I then discovered that > it's not on the hardware list for FreeBSD (I am running 4.3). It's not on the hardware list (I actually had to confirm that, since I didn't believe it), but this card has been running under FreeBSD since version 4.2, possibly earlier. I'm going to guess and say that it was simply an oversight that it wasn't mentioned in the hardware.txt file for 4.3-Release. See: http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/160/2001/4/0/5566808/ For discussion from April of this year. > I > replaced it > with a 2930UW, and now everything works perfectly. Unless you > really need U160 > (and it sounds like you don't have anything that requires it at > the moment), > consider a cheaper card. Charles, if you plan to run more than one drive on that controller, or go to a U160 drive in the future, it's not a bad investment. Consider that you could put 2 80 MB/s drives on that controller, run vinum and see a performance gain... > I only needed the card for external > things like tape > drives, so a 29160N was overkill, anyway. I'll agree with that. That's why I have a spare 40 MB/s chain for external devices on my workstation. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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