[ale] Recommendations for a SCSI-2 card?

[byron at cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff)]

> 
> Hi folks -- a SCSI newbie here, as you'll soon see.
> 
> I'm building servers that have Ultra160 hard drives and an Ultra160
> backup drive, and I ignorantly included a SCSI-2 DVD/CD-ROM drive on the
> same chain.  (Duhhhh!  Why won't my hard drives go any faster?  Duhhhh!)
> 
> So to prevent the chain from downgrading to the speed of that drive, I'm
> planning to add a simple PCI SCSI-2 card to handle the DVD/CD drive.
> 
> Any recommendations (Tekram? Adaptec? Other brand? What model?) would be
> very welcome.

If it were a desktop I'd suggest getting a Iomega Buz off of ebay. Hardware
MPEG video coupled with an Advansys SCSI controller. I have my scanner hooked
up to mine. Works Flawlessly.

BAJ

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