Which SCSI adapter?

[Net Llama!]

I agree, Seagate makes excellent SCSI drives.  All other vendors have
inferior performance records.

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> 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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