Re: Promise Ultra100 PCI adapter success
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, jingai wrote:
> Just thought I'd post this, in case anyone is interested.. I've had
> trouble finding decent-priced SCSI drives that had built-in
> termination (do they even exist anymore?!?), so after going thru
Do you mean `decent-priced SCSI drives' or `built-in termination'? :-)
I thought my Quantum Viking II had the second property.
> three different drives, I decided I'd do something a little nutty...
> ..I went down to the local PC wholesale shop thing and got
> myself a Promise Ultra100 PCI card and an 20GB IDE drive
> (the two together were $150...... sure beat the $260 for a
> SCSI drive of the same size). I was certain it wouldn't work,
> but lo and behold, it was probably one of the least painful
> things I've installed in a while :) Two sets of kernel patches
> (Michel Lanner's PCI patches and Hedrik's IDE patches),
> one kernel build, and bingo, works like a charm. Not to
Congrats!
> mention it's loads faster than my SCSI drives (mostly
> because they are on the int MESH SCSI controller, and
> I didn't feel like shelling out $300 for a good SCSI
> controller). Needless to say, 13MB/s is not *that* bad,
> and 20GB for $150 ($105 for the drive) just can't be
> beat.
Take a look at http://home.tvd.be/cr26864/Linux/PPC/History.html for a
comparison between MESH (it really sucks) and a good but cheap UW-SCSI
(Sym53c875, I paid about 100 EUR two years ago; no need to pay three times as
much for Adaptec). But the IDE solution will still be cheaper...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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