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Subject: Re: Ultra 160 - what HA works well with 4.9 and 5-CURRENT? 
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I have an Adaptec 29160B in a Dell 1U server appliance I picked up
used that seems to work very reliably.  And it's pretty quick, compared
to the Ultra2 stuff I'm used to using.

I have no experience with the other controllers you mentioned
louie

>From dmesg, under 4.9 stable

ahc0: <Adaptec 29160B Ultra160 SCSI adapter> port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xfebfb000-0xfebfbfff irq 10 at device 15.0 on pci0
aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <QUANTUM ATLAS V  9 WLS 0201> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device 
da0: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da0: 8683MB (17783249 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C)
da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
da1: <QUANTUM ATLAS V  9 WLS 0201> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device 
da1: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da1: 8683MB (17783249 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C)