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by **w..** » Thu, 20 Apr 1995 04:00:00

I'm considering a Micron Electronics, Inc. P100PCI PowerStation Plus,
which includes a Buslogic 946C SCSI-2 32 Bit PCI Hard Drive Controller.
Does anyone have any experience with Micron, in general, or specifically
with this controller and Slackware 2.2? I know similar Buslogic models are
"OK", according to the HOW-TO, but I didn't see any reference to the "C".

by **Koen J.Mulde** » Fri, 21 Apr 1995 04:00:00

>I'm considering a Micron Electronics, Inc. P100PCI PowerStation Plus,
>which includes a Buslogic 946C SCSI-2 32 Bit PCI Hard Drive Controller.
>Does anyone have any experience with Micron, in general, or specifically
>with this controller and Slackware 2.2? I know similar Buslogic models are
>"OK", according to the HOW-TO, but I didn't see any reference to the "C".

I've read several times it works OK. There are some problems mixing it
with a HP DAT drive, but it seems that it's not due to the controller,
but rather the scsi tape driver (or something like that).
There is a fix and it's included in the 1.2.5 kernel, but I'm not sure
whether it is stable enough yet.

I have both a Buslogic and a HP-DAT drive, but can't really comment from
my own experiences since I only have them for 3 days. Both seem good products
and once all problems are solved, the combination will be perfect.

There is a new Buslogic driver in the works, which will take better advantage
of the new features in some models. So speed will go up even more!

--
Koen Mulders