We are using a Fasttrak with redhat 6.2 at work. It is running nicely. They are beta drivers, but our box has been up for several weeks now with out errors. Its an Ultra66 that I converted to a Fasttrak 66, but I think the drivers also work with Fasttrak 100. I used the same card for about 7 months with win98 as well. Gabe, have you ever had any problems with your escalade? This is my second one. I have been getting oddities that I hope is not coming from my escalade 6400. I keep getting scsi contoller drive 0 timeouts that halt the whole box. This happens at random intervals of uptime. I moved all data to one large drive, recreated the array with a new first drive and move the data back, and I still get the error. This is W2k and I am running the latest bios and drivers. I havent see the error in linux yet, but I may not have left it on long enough to see it. Also if I use Power Quest Drive copy to copy data to the array its really really slow! Less than 10 mb/min. When I copy data off the array to a single drive, I get 100mb/min or better. Could be nothing, but just wondering if anyone noticed odd things with escalade's Then I am also debating on a SCSI raid controller for a linux server. Do I go with a cheaper mylex or do I spring for the expensive ICP Vortex? thanks for any feedback "Gabe Turner (officer)" wrote: > I have the Dual pIII MSI 694D Pro-AR board. It's really nice. I > espacially like MSI's practice of putting little error LEDs on the mobo so > you can see when something is wrong. Unfortunately, I can't use the > on-board Promise Fasttrack-100. Linux doesn't have support for it, from > what I can tell, and the driver for it makes Win2k blue screen on my system > (even in safe mode!). I use a 3ware Escalade anyway, but I'd still like > to play with the promise controller. I picked mine up at TranMicro for > $194, IIRC. A bit expensive, but at least they test it before they give it > to you :) > > Gabe > > On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:16:49PM -0600, Steve Grobe wrote: > > Linuxians, > > > > I am thinking about building a new dual PIII system but before I go out > > and spend some money I was wondering if anyone had experience with the > > MSI 694D Pro AR motherboard, or MSI products in general. I have had > > good luck with Abit boards (BP6) in the past and I am wondering if MSI > > is as reliable. (Abit has a dual board available but not through a local > > source.) > > > > I figure if I use some parts I already have I can build a dual PIII 1GHz > > system for about $1000. Sweet. (Then I can really hammer out some seti > > work units. :-) > > > > SG, O.S.D. > > -- > > When you consider who I am, I am doing pretty good. > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Gabe Turner | X-President, > UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery > U of M Supercomputing Institute for | University of Minnesohta > Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu > > "The fearsome...veecous.....Crocostimpy!! If we leesten real close, > we can hear his beauteeful mateeng call!" -- Ren > "Happy Happy!! Joy Joy!!" -- Crocostimpy > - Ren & Stimpy in "Nature Show" > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list