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I reading one of the faqs (probably SCSI) I understood it to say that there
weren't any wide SCSI controllers that had drivers for Linux that would use
the wide.  Meaning the controllers would work fine but only have the
performance of narrow SCSI.  I grabbed a copy of sunsite thinking I may
have an old copy, but it said the same.  Am I mis-understanding what it is
saying or is this really the case...
Steve

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: I reading one of the faqs (probably SCSI) I understood it to say that there
: weren't any wide SCSI controllers that had drivers for Linux that would use
: the wide.  Meaning the controllers would work fine but only have the
: performance of narrow SCSI.  I grabbed a copy of sunsite thinking I may
: have an old copy, but it said the same.  Am I mis-understanding what it is
: saying or is this really the case...

The documentation that you are reading is outdated.

Linux has been supporting wide SCSI for, hmmmm.... 2 years or more now.
Since I changed the code in the mid and highlevel SCSI code, more and
more lowlevel drivers started supporting it. Today more or less all
wide versions of supported cards should be working as expected.

Mike

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>I reading one of the faqs (probably SCSI) I understood it to say that there
>weren't any wide SCSI controllers that had drivers for Linux that would use
>the wide.  Meaning the controllers would work fine but only have the
>performance of narrow SCSI.  I grabbed a copy of sunsite thinking I may
>have an old copy, but it said the same.  Am I mis-understanding what it is
>saying or is this really the case...

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