Re: Which Sparc is best? (SCSI card)
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Craig Morehouse wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:03:39 -0400, Ferris McCormick wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Craig Morehouse wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 22:54:48 -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
<...>
> >> >
> >> > 1) The early IDE line. E.g. Ultra 5 or 10. The reason being that the
> >> > machines are cheap to maintain and offer decent performance.
> >> >
> >> > 2) PCI SCSI based systems. E.g. Ultra 2, 30, 60. If you're interested
> >> > in SMP based systems, the 2 and 60 are the way to go. Debian's
> >> > primary archive (aka ftp-master, aka auric) is an Ultra60 with dual
> >> > 450mhz cpu's, 1.5 gigs of ram and a ~240gig raid5
> >
> > For what it's worth, my experience with Linux (Debian & SuSE) on an
> > Ultra10 suggests that if you are going to stress the disk much at all,
> > on such a system, you will want to use one of your expansion slots for a
> > SCSI card. Others will have better information, though.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ferris
> >
>
> This makes much sense. I use SCSI on all the important Intel boxes.
>
> One question, though, which SCSI cards work best on UltraSparcs and
> Debian?
>
> Thanks.
>
I have an Ultra10 with a card the system identifies as:
02:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly NCR) 53c875
(rev 04)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 6646528
I/O ports at 2000400
Memory at fffff9ff00002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Memory at fffff9ff00004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Expansion ROM at 0000000000040000 [disabled]
with external SCSI-III disk(s). It uses the <sym53c8xx.o> scsi driver,
which David S. Miller called "one of the best scsi drivers in the tree" in
response to a similar question last April on the
<sparclinux@vger.kernel.org> mailing list. It's worked fine for me for
about 9 months now.
In the interest of full disclosure: Debian installs fine for me over this
driver, but for various compatibility reasons, my primary OS on this
system is SuSE 7.3. I don't know why that should matter at the driver
level, though, since that should be independent from whose name is on
the release(?)
Regards,
--
Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@inforead.com>
Phone: (703) 392-0303
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