Which SCSI adapter?

[Chong Yu Meng]

Hi Michael!

I had a really strange thing happen to me last year : whatever you do, 
try to avoid using a Maxtor/Quantum 18GB U160 SCSI drive with the 
Adaptec 29160 card. If you need to use it, connect it internally. I have 
an external SCSI hard drive enclosure and previously it had the Quantum 
drive inside. I could never get it to work on Linux. On Windows it 
performed OK, but would hang periodically. When I connected it 
internally, the drive functioned OK. After several emails back and forth 
with Adaptec tech support, and buying Adaptec terminators and another 2 
SCSI cables, they were as mystified as me.

Early this year, I bought a re-conditioned Seagate 36GB drive and 
plugged it inside the hard drive enclosure, and it worked perfectly !



Michael Hipp wrote:

> Net Llama! wrote:
>
>> Adaptec makes good SCSI controllers.  Unless your samba shares will in
>> some way need to interact with the postgresql database i'd suggest 
>> placing
>> them in separate RAID arrays otherwise the performance of both will
>> suffer.
>
>
> Thanks. It's more a case of either-or. For now we will have an old DOS 
> app that will rely on Samba. Before the year is out we will be 
> replacing that with a custom Postgresql app and the Samba usage will 
> diminish to near nothing.
>
> Michael
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