Re: OT: info on Tekram 315U and scsi in general

[Shriram Shrikumar <shri@urbyte.com>]

On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 18:20, Christopher D. Reimer wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Martin Wuertele wrote:
> 
> > > Is this card generally well supported in the 2.4 range kernels and are
> > > there any things in particular that I have to look out for while taking
> > > on this endeavour.
> > 
> > according to the suse hardware database it is fully supported
> 
> Only if use the SuSE kernal that it's fully supported.  Trying to patch a
> vanilla 2.4.x kernel with the Tekram patch was a nightmare the last time
> that I tried.  (That might've changed since I was using the 2.4.1
> kernel.)  All the machines that I have the 315U controller card in has a
> SuSE kernel, and the card has worked flawlessly.
> 
> Christopher Reimer
> 

I read somewhere that this card was perfect for cdrw's. Does it work
fine with hdd's - is the performance faster than ide for hdd with this
card ?

Also, how difficult is it to fit more than 4 hard disks on a regular at
tower case ? any ideas ?


Thanx



Shri