[Pc_Support] Re: 68-pin SCSI card for Linux box .... -- Ultra160 card, voltage note ...

[William A. Mahaffey III]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 11:04 -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>  
>
>>  ...  
>>The 53c895 (as well as dual-channel 53c896) is Ultra80.  I bought some
>>Symbios Logic 53c895 32-bit PCI cards for $10 a couple months back --
>>and they work well!  Let me see here ... yep, they still got them too -
>>brand new, _not_ pulls, although OEM/non-boxed:  
>>  http://www.etech4sale.com/products/partinfo-id-143694.html  
>>    
>>
>
>Again, that will do fine for LTO-1.  But I still recommend you do _not_
>put your storage on the same PCI bus as it will saturate it.
>  
>

I understand this point quite well, how do I check that ? I have 3 HDD's 
hooked up to the onboard (Foxconn 865A-01 i865 mbd) IDE controller, I 
didn't think that they went through the PCI bus, just other peripherials 
(NIC's, for example). I am backing stuff up from the HDD's on *this* box 
to the new tape drive, *after* this box gathers its near-line backup 
over the network from the other 4 boxen. I just ordered the above card, 
BTW, thanx :-).

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