New MB recommendations

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Bruce Marshall wrote:
>> On Tuesday 27 February 2007 14:51, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>>> Yes, but the CPU isn't the only factor.  The disk controller support in
>>>> the initrd also has to be the same.
>>> Yes, that's why I would expect to have to pull over the SCSI controller
>>> along with the drives.
>>
>> What is the brand/model of the scsi controller?
>
> It is a Mylex (Buslogic) BT-958 (Ultra Wide SCSI PCI)
> I see lots of Google posts, but not much past 2005, after which the card
> was not made.  Seems to have been a popular card.

Oh jebus.  Mylex is the red-headed step-child of the disk controller 
industry.  First LSI bought them, then IBM bought them, then IBM sold them 
back to LSI, then LSI killed them off completely.  On top of that the late 
Leonard Zubkoff was the only person writing/maintaining the Linux Mylex 
driver.  As far as I can tell, the dac960 kernel module no longer exists 
in recent 2.6.x kernels.

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