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>>>>"Over 7 years of using Linux and Adaptec has taught me one thing:
>>>>Don't use Adaptec"
>>>>No cream, no sugar, and death before decaf!
>>>Better than SIIG, which burned up three of my drives *at the same time*,
>>>and then another when I connected it to test for card failure.  Yay.
>>>Hmm...I seemed to not have many problems with adaptec, I like 'em.
>>I know it is flame war material, but all my IBM Netfinities have an 
>>aic7xxx channel (Adaptex 2940/7880) and they have worked flawlessly from 
>>day one.  The host that runs my house has a drive array connected via an 
>>AIC-7850 and it too has worked without incident.  
>I agree 100%.  I have almost a dozen IBM Intellistations with the same
>Adaptec controller, and they all have always worked flawlessly.

Phew,  I'm glad I'm not alone.  Half expected to come in this morning to a dozen
or so corrupt filesystems.... ;)

>>The Future Domain channel, on the other hand, blows chunks on a regular
>>basis. Fortunately I use that channel for removable media (4mm, 8mm, CDR, & 
>>CDW) and don't much care.
>Never tried one of those, and I probably won't now!   :-)

It was *really* cheap on e-bay and I needed to hook up all that slow SCSI-2 junk
without polluting my wide channels.  It could be the fdomain driver,  it returns
about 0 status information and just seems less advanced than the ips or aic
drivers I use for my other boards. (I've got 8 SCSI channels in this puppy :).

I haven't found too many other people complaining about them,  except that they
are **VERY** touchy about cabling/termintation.  Which is just another hassel
one doesn't need.  I'd personally steer anyone away from a Future Domain controller.

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