Re: Adaptec AHA-2940 PCI w/4 GB duplexed: Recommendations?

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From: Daniel Tran
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 00:00

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In article <42l1dh$494@clarknet.clark.net> tsr@clark.net (Tay Systems Research) writes:
>At one of our client's sites, we're ready to deploy a new (upgrade) of
>probably either 4.1 or 3.12.  Since the existing disk subsystem is
>duplexed (a pair of Adaptec AHA-1542's and a pair of Seagate 1.02 GB SCSI
>drives), it is only logical that they want to go with a duplexed 
>configuration again, rather than a RAID array due to cost considerations.

>The equipment that was specified were:

>2 Adaptec AHA-2940 PCI host adapters
>2 4.x GB SCSI drives, either Seagate's HAWK (ST15230N) or Quantum
>Intel Advanced/ZP ("Zappa") 75 MHz
>32-48 MB of RAM min.

>Anybody here have any horror (or success) stories of using the AHA-2940's 
>in a duplex environment with any of the above drives on a PCI bus?

No comment on the aha-2940.
I've heard Seagate Hawk runs very warm.  Make sure you have adequate 
ventilation for the drive.  Not sure if this is the drive but someone on the 
net (Carl Houseman I think) had some problems with Seagate drive until he 
disable the drive's cache.  

Daniel Tran - dtran@ucla.edu

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From: dtran@ucla.edu (Daniel Tran)
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-2940 PCI w/4 GB duplexed: Recommendations?
Date: 1995/09/06
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summary: AHA-2940 PCI w/4 GB duplexed: Recommendations?
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keywords: Adaptec, AHA-2940, PCI, 4GB, Duplexed
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