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Date:	Mon, 2 May 2005 20:10:30 PDT7
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re:ULTRA II SCSI card

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--- Harry Motin wrote:

> The Ultra320 is now the fastest and there there are
> no OS/2 drivers for this design from
> Adaptec except for Warp Server

Harry,

I think you may be mistaken here, and that I have
Adaptec drivers for 320 that are applicable to eCS, or
even W4 @ a high FP level. Can't recall where I
picked them up, but I could easily make them available
to you.

> (there may be other
> Ultra320 controller cards with
> OS/2 drivers, I don't know)

There are. From LSI, and possibly from Tekram.

> You pay a premium price for SCSI, however, >
compared to ATA/IDE

And even compared to SATA, which does have its own
price bump, and is maybe not yet ready for Prime Time
on our platform.

Besides performance, SCSI has historically had it
*WAY OVER* IDE on the MTBF spec. (Mean Time Between
Failures, a.k.a. overall service life.) Because it
was supposed to be an industrial grade item, intended
for servers. That may still be the case, though the 5
yr. warranties for SCSI have mostly gone away now, and
you have to hunt around to find the 3 yr. warranty
models.

Jordan

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