On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 06:55:19PM -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > >What I would like to do is replace my adaptec SCSI card with a better > > >(faster) card that is well supported by Linux - and attach 4 fast/big > > >SCSI hard disks. > > Well, I have two Adaptec 29160 cards that I need to sell. > If I'm not mistaken - that's a 64-bit PCI card and my PCI slots are I > believe 32-bit. That's okay. They'll fit in the 32-bit slots and extra bits will hang over the edge, and they'll act as 32-bit cards. (Really!) But, without a 64-bit PCI bus, you aren't really going to see the full speed improvement. And even then, that improvement isn't likely to be much in a practical sense under most loads. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
