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Subject: Re: Building a Linux box From: John Aldrich <john@chattanooga.net> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:46:37 -0400 On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Manuel A. Camacho Q. wrote: > I like AdvanSys SCSI cards. > My $0.02 is as follows: I've used both Adaptec and Advansys under Linux. I'm currently using both in my home machine. Either will work fine. However, a couple things to keep in mind -- 1)Adaptec is a relative newcomer to supporting linux. Advansys has been supporting linux for years, releasing open-source drivers, etc for linux. 2) Adaptec is going to cost about twice as much as Advansys for a similar card. Advansys ain't cheap, but it's certainly less expensive than Adaptec. Matter of fact, if my current motherboard didn't come with Adaptec SCSI on-board, I doubt I would be using Adaptec today. I still have a couple "legacy" 50-pin drives that I haven't switched over to the new controller yet, so I still have my Advansys card in the machine. John ===