Best U160/U320 for Linux

Best U160/U320 for Linux

[Guillaume Girard]

Hi,

I need to set up a workstation as fast as possible from a disk point of 
view...

I plan to use a Seagate Cheeatah 15K.3 hard drive that seems to be the 
fastest U160/U320 15000 hard drive available.

But I don't know which adapter I have to buy.

Which one is the best supported by the kernel currently ? aic7xxx ? Tekram ?

Thanks for your answer and sorry in advance if my question has nothing 
to do in this mailing-list.

Regards

Re: Best U160/U320 for Linux

[Sean Neakums]

Guillaume Girard <ggirard@about.org> writes:

> I plan to use a Seagate Cheeatah 15K.3 hard drive that seems to be the
> fastest U160/U320 15000 hard drive available.
>
> But I don't know which adapter I have to buy.
>
> Which one is the best supported by the kernel currently ? aic7xxx ? Tekram ?

I'm using an Adaptec 19160 with a 10K.6 Cheetah.  No problems with
2.4.20 and a bunch of 2.5 and 2.6-test releases using the aic7xxx
driver.

(The sensation of moving from SCSI to IDE was in some ways like wading
out of a marsh and onto the road.)

Re: Best U160/U320 for Linux

[Guillaume Girard]

Thanks.
All the default values are ok ? No need to tweak anything ?
How fast is it ? The same system compared to an IDE one of course.

Sean Neakums wrote:
> Guillaume Girard <ggirard@about.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>I plan to use a Seagate Cheeatah 15K.3 hard drive that seems to be the
>>fastest U160/U320 15000 hard drive available.
>>
>>But I don't know which adapter I have to buy.
>>
>>Which one is the best supported by the kernel currently ? aic7xxx ? Tekram ?
> 
> 
> I'm using an Adaptec 19160 with a 10K.6 Cheetah.  No problems with
> 2.4.20 and a bunch of 2.5 and 2.6-test releases using the aic7xxx
> driver.
> 
> (The sensation of moving from SCSI to IDE was in some ways like wading
> out of a marsh and onto the road.)
> 
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Re: Best U160/U320 for Linux

[Ricky Beam]

Guillaume Girard <ggirard@about.org> writes:
> (The sensation of moving from SCSI to IDE was in some ways like wading
> out of a marsh and onto the road.)

... only to be suddenly hit by a bus.  For high IO loads, there's no
beatin' SCSI. (3Ware hardware aside.)

--Ricky

Re: Best U160/U320 for Linux

[Sean Neakums]

Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetronic.net> writes:

> Guillaume Girard <ggirard@about.org> writes:
>> (The sensation of moving from SCSI to IDE was in some ways like wading
>> out of a marsh and onto the road.)
>
> ... only to be suddenly hit by a bus.  For high IO loads, there's no
> beatin' SCSI. (3Ware hardware aside.)

Hurg!  I meant from IDE to SCSI, of course.