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Adaptec Ultra 160MB/sec SCSI support for Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the faster-than-you-can-spit dept.

hooligan writes "This is an annoucement from Adaptec for support for their new transfer speed for Linux. Check the press release."

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  1. Read What Alan Cox had to Say about it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4

    This is what Alan Cox wrote about it at
    http://linuxtoday.com/talkback/25240.html
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    Red Hat 6 ships with the source code to all the
    included drivers in the kernel it ships with. The
    code is afaik all in recent aic7xxx drivers from
    any source.

    Alan
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    In short:

    1. It is not new.
    2. It is not unique to RH.

    And let me add, that even if its production will
    start soon, don't expect prices lower than $1000.
    Add to it the high prices of fast SCSI disks (it's
    stupid to attach a slow disk to SCSI/160), and you
    end up with prices of supercomputers.

    Eli Marmor