Uses for a couple boxes full of Compaq 2.1gig Fast-Wide SCSI2?

[jrv at vanzandt.mv.com (James R. Van Zandt)]

Mark -

>Is SCSI2 limited to eight devices? 

SCSI wide supports up to 15 devices (besides the adapter).

>Any ideas for applications? I imagine this would be an excellent
>fileserver for my local office .. Or possibly setup some kind of
>proxy to increase the speed that people "access" the web?

You can set up RAID for very fast/reliable disk storage.  To fully
utilize this, you would need some disk intensive application like a
database or software builds.

>What would recommended SCSI2 fast-wide ISA or PCI adapters be?  Do
>the Adaptec's work well with linux?

Lots of people are using Adaptec 2940<something> adapters
successfully.  However, there are persistent reports of problems, too.
There are several versions of the driver.  Each version breaks a small
minority of the cards, and no one version of the driver works with all
of them.

The BusLogic BT958 has a good reputation.  I have had very good luck
with the two BT948 adapters I have (that's the narrow version).
BusLogic was bought by Mylex a while back.

	     - Jim Van Zandt

-
Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with
"subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the
message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).