New MB recommendations

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>On Tuesday 27 February 2007 15:27, 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.
>
>Should be ok to move over.  I think even VMware emulates the Buslogic for any 
>SCSI you want it to deal with.

There was a time when we much preferred the BusLogic cards to Adaptec,
probably because there were some wierd issues with Adaptec at the time
(about ten years ago I think).  If I remember correctly, the BusLogic cards
worked better with *nix Adaptec drivers than some of the Adaptecs.

Bill
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