[KLUG Hardware] SCSI card recommendation

[John Koenig]

At 10:19 PM -0500 11/4/02, Bruce Smith wrote:
>  > I recently was going through a box of stuff and found a HP35470A 
>DDS-1 2/4 GB DAT drive. Cool! Now I need recommendations on which 
>SCSI card to use. I have an Asus a7m266 mboard.
>
>I've had good luck with Adaptec 2940 cards on recent RH releases.
>I see they are around $20 on pricewatch.
>
>If you want to hook a HDD to the controller someday, a 2940UW ($40)
>(ultra wide) has the 68 pin connection in addition to the 50 pin.


I was using one of these 2940UW with multiple OSes... one Linux 
distro essentially revolted when all three ports were in use. I 
glanced at the adaptec manual but did not explicitly see this spelled 
out. COulda missed it... I plan to check again when I return to that 
project...

but but since you all were talking about it...

Does this sound right, that only two of the three connectors (68-pin 
external, 50-pin internal, 68-pin internal) can be used at the same 
time?

IIRC, it was SuSE 7.3 that flagged this as misuse of the card.

thx