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9. Controllers (SCSI)

It is important to pick a SCSI controller carefully. Many cheap ISA SCSI controllers are designed to drive CD-ROM's rather than anything else. Such low end SCSI controllers are no better than IDE. See the SCSI HOWTO and look at performance figures before buying a SCSI card.

9.1 Supported

• AMI Fast Disk (VLB/EISA) (BusLogic compatible)
• Adaptec AVA-1502E (ISA/VLB) (AIC-6360) (AHA1520)
• Adaptec AVA-1505/1515 (ISA) (Adaptec AHA-152x compatible)
• Adaptec AHA-1510/152x (ISA/VLB) (AIC-6260/6360)
• Adaptec AHA-154x (ISA) (all models)
• Adaptec AHA-174x (EISA) (in enhanced mode)
• Adaptec AHA-274x/274xT (EISA) (AIC-7771). The 274xT is supported since kernel series 2.1.x (AHA2740)
• Adaptec AHA-284x (VLB) (AIC-7770) (AHA2740)
• Adaptec AHA-2910B (PCI) (since kernel series 2.1.x)
• Adaptec AHA-2920 (PCI). Use the Future Domain driver. LILO parameters are needed when used for hard disks.
• Adaptec AHA-2940/U/W/AU/UW/U2W (PCI) (AIC-7861, AIC-7871, AIC-7844, AIC-7881, AIC-7884). Some of these are only supported since kernel series 2.1.x (AHA2740)
• Adaptec AHA-2944D/WD/UD/UWD (PCI). Some of these are only supported since kernel series 2.1.x (AHA2740)
• Adaptec AHA-3940/U/W/UW (PCI) (AIC-7872, AIC-7882) (since 1.3.6). Some of these are only supported since kernel series 2.1.x
• Adaptec AHA-398x/U/W/UW (PCI) (AIC-7873, AIC-7883). Some of these are only supported since kernel series 2.1.x
• Adaptec PCI controllers with AIC-7850, AIC-7855, AIC-7860
• Adaptec on board controllers with AIC-777x (EISA), AIC-785x, AIC-786x, AIC-787x (PCI), AIC-788x (PCI), AIC-7895. AIC-786x and AIC-7895 are supported since kernel series 2.1.x
• AdvanSys ABP510/5150 Bus-Master (ISA)
• AdvanSys ABP5140 Bus-Master (ISA) PnP
• AdvanSys ABP5142 Bus-Master (ISA) PnP with floppy
• AdvanSys ABP920 Bus-Master (PCI)
• AdvanSys ABP930/U Bus-Master (PCI/Ultra>)
• AdvanSys ABP960/U Bus-Master (PCI/ULTRA) MAC/PC
• AdvanSys ABP542 Bus-Master (ISA) with floppy (single channel)
• AdvanSys ABP742 Bus-Master (EISA) (single channel)
• AdvanSys ABP842 Bus-Master (VL) (single channel)
• AdvanSys ABP940/U Bus-Master (PCI/Ultra) (single channel)
• AdvanSys ABP970/U Bus-Master (PCI/Ultra) MAC/PC (single channel)
• AdvanSys ABP752 Dual Channel Bus-Master (EISA) (dual channel)
• AdvanSys ABP852 Dual Channel Bus-Master (VL) (dual channel)
• AdvanSys ABP950 Dual Channel Bus-Master (PCI) (dual channel)
• Always IN2000
• AMD AM53C974
• BusLogic FlashPoint LT/DL/LW/DW (BT-930(R), BT-920, BT-932(R), BT-950(R), BT-952(R))
  http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/
• Initio Corp. INI-9090U INI-9100, INI-9100W/A/UW, INI-9200U/UW, INI-9400U/UW, INI-9520U/UW, INI-A100U2W
• Initio Corp. INIC-950
• Mylex (formerly BusLogic) W Series (PCI) (BT-948, BT-958, BT-958D)
• Mylex (formerly BusLogic) C Series (ISA/EISA/VLB/PCI) (BT-946C, BT-956C, BT-956CD, BT-445, BT-747C, BT-757C, BT-757CD, BT-545C, BT-540CF)
• Mylex (formerly Buslogic) S Series (ISA/EISA/VLB) (BT-445S, BT-747S, BT-747D, BT-757S, BT-757D, BT-545S, BT-542D, BT-742A, BT-542B)
• Mylex (formerly BusLogic) A Series (ISA/EISA) (BT-742A, BT-542B)
• DPT PM2001, PM2012A (EATA-PIO)
• DPT Smartcache/SmartRAID Plus,III,IV families (ISA/EISA/PCI)
  Take a look at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~neuffer/scsi/dpt/(EATA-DMA)
  Cards in these families are PM2011, PM2021, PM2041, PM3021, PM2012B, PM2022, PM2122, PM2322, PM2042, PM3122, PM3222, PM3332, PM2024, PM2124, PM2044, PM2144, PM3224, PM3334
• DTC 3180/3280
• DTC 329x (EISA) (Adaptec 154x compatible)
• Future Domain TMC-16x0, TMC-3260 (PCI)
• Future Domain TMC-8xx, TMC-950
• Future Domain chips TMC-1800, TMC-18C50, TMC-18C30, TMC-36C70
• ICP-Vortex PCI-SCSI Disk Array Controllers (many RAID levels supported)
  Patches for Linux 1.2.13 and 2.0.29 are available at ftp://icp-vortex.com/download/linux/. The controllers GDT6111RP, GDT6121RP, GDT6117RP, GDT6127RP, GDT6511RP, GDT6521RP, GDT6517RP, GDT6527RP, GDT6537RP and GDT6557RP are supported. You can also use pre-patch-2.0.31-4 to pre-patch-2.0.31-9.
• ICP-Vortex EISA-SCSI Controllers (many RAID levels supported)
  Patches for Linux 1.2.13 and 2.0.29 are available at ftp://icp-vortex.com/download/linux/. The controllers GDT3000B, GDT3000A, GDT3010A, GDT3020A and GDT3050A are supported. You can also use pre-patch-2.0.31-4 to pre-patch-2.0.31-9.
• Iomega PPA3 parallel port SCSI Host Bus Adapter embedded in ZIP drive
• Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 SCSI (ISA)
• NCR 5380 generic cards
• NCR 53C400 (Trantor T130B) (use generic NCR 5380 SCSI support)
• NCR 53C406a (Acculogic ISApport / Media Vision Premium 3D SCSI)
• NCR chips 53C7x0 (the 53C710 is only supported in PCI variant)
• NCR chips 53C810(A), 53C815, 53C820, 53C825(A), 53C860, 53C875, 53C895 (53C895 supported 'on paper')
• Qlogic / Control Concepts SCSI/IDE (FAS408) (ISA/VLB)
• Qlogic FASXXX/FASXX family of chips (ISA/VLB)
• QLogic IQ-PCI, IQ-PCI-10, IQ-PCI-D (PCI) (ISP1020 chip)
• Quantum ISA-200S, ISA-250MG
• Seagate ST-01/ST-02 (ISA)
• SIIG Ultrawide SCSI Pro (Initio chipset). Drivers and kernel patch to be found at http://www.initio.com/suse.htm
• SoundBlaster 16 SCSI-2 (Adaptec 152x compatible) (ISA)
• Tekram DC-390, DC-390W/U/F
• Trantor T128/T128F/T228 (ISA)
• UltraStor 14F (ISA), 24F (EISA), 34F (VLB)
• Western Digital WD7000 SCSI

9.2 Alpha, Beta drivers

• AMD AM79C974 (PCI) (Compaq, HP, Zeos onboard SCSI)
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/AM53C974-0.3.tgz
• Adaptec ACB-40xx SCSI-MFM/RLL bridgeboard
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/adaptec-40XX.tar.gz
• Always Technologies AL-500
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/al500-0.2.tar.gz
• Iomega PC2/2B
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/iomega_pc2-1.1.x.tar.gz
• Ricoh GSI-8
  ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi/gsi8.tar.gz

9.3 Unsupported

• NCR chip 53C710 (ISA) (old obsolete chip, but still used in some Compaq models)
• Non Adaptec compatible DTC boards (327x, 328x)