Re: SCSI Ultra/Wide support

[Evan Thomas <evan@plexus.physiol.unimelb.edu.au>]

Markus Diesmann wrote:
> 
> We would like to run Debian Linux on a PC with
> all its disks connected to a
> 
>   Adaptec AHA 2940U/W PCI Ultra/Wide SCSI-3
> 
> controller.
> 
> Does anyone have experience with this controller?
> Do we have to expect any problems with the driver?
> 
> Markus

I have been using for some time and have had no problems, including
booting from it.

dirac:/home/evan# time dd if=/dev/sda3 of=/dev/null bs=20971520 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
0.01user 0.93system 0:03.62elapsed 25%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (75major+5128minor)pagefaults 0swaps

This corresponds to a transfer of 5.5Mb/sec, which seems to about the
same as Win95 users get.

Thanks, Evan.
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Evan Thomas
Department of Physiology
University of Melbourne
Parkville, 3052
ph: 9344-5849  fax: 9344-5818