08-27-2001, 11:04 AM
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Hey,
Is the ADAPTEC 19160 scsi controller very good? I am wanting to run a seagate x15 18.2g and a 36.4G 10k rpm drive on it as well as a Yamaha 16xcd-rw and a toshiba 16x dvd. will that work with all these or is this a communative cluster f*ck? any suggestions, I like adaptec, we used them in all our servers at work and they seem pretty good, or was it because they are the only ones I have really seen?
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08-27-2001, 11:21 AM
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adaptecs are the standard for a reason...
I'd totally trust that card...
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08-27-2001, 11:59 AM
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but will it work with all those drives? I don't want to buy it then my Yamaha and Toshiba not work with it...
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08-27-2001, 01:13 PM
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check out the tekram
http://www.tekram.com I am using the 390U2W with plextor 12/4/32 burner(no burn proof)  UltraWide Plextor 40x. 2 IBM 18 gig.Working like a charm : ) |
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08-27-2001, 01:20 PM
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is that what cdrws and dvds use? or is there an adapter for ultra160? because my hard-drives are scsi3
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08-27-2001, 01:23 PM
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I'm pretty sure you will get the Ultra 160 with this card.
And also be able to add your 50 pin CDRW and DVD. Read the spec and compare........then look at $. I took me abour three weeks of review, I finaly went with the Tekram. http://www.tekram.com/hot_products.a...C-390U3_Series |
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08-27-2001, 01:26 PM
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cool, so how is the BIOS on those things
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08-27-2001, 01:34 PM
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So simple to set.
You set your SCSI cd rom as the boot drive. Well since you only have about three drives you can disable the other 27 channel instead of letting it scan all the channel for harddrive or other hardware(Save time on bootup) You can set which harddrive to boot from on the card by setting the LUN and SCSI ID. No more pin on IDE : ) Endless setting in the BIOS. the nice thing about the TEKRAM is it includes everything in a retail box unlike Adaptec at a reasonable price. I'm out ..got school |
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08-27-2001, 03:35 PM
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Adaptec is the standard for SCSI. If money is not a huge issue, always buy Adaptec. If you're tight on the funds, Tekram is a reasonable alternative.
The nice thing aboue SCSI is you can put pretty much anything you want on the chain and it will work fine. I have SCSI cards with a lot more than that hanging off of them and they run without a hitch. |
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08-28-2001, 02:36 AM
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Adaptec SCSI is not bad, Adaptec SCSI RAID absolutely rots.
I'm on an ATTO UL3D and three X15's (RAID 0). |
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08-28-2001, 06:43 PM
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Yea, but that SCSI RAID Rocks the pocket book pretty bad too, but if you are running 3 X15s, then obviously you must not be hurtin too bad
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08-28-2001, 08:14 PM
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Man I wanna Mylex RAID card ; )
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