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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-2940-UW support
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On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Carl Makin wrote:

> 
> Can anyone give me some experiences, good and bad, in using the AHA2940UW
> PCI adaptor under 2.1.7 and 2.2?
> 
> We're currently putting together a spec for a PC to take some services off
> several AIX boxes (mail, news, ftp, listproc etc).  THe 2940UW seems to be
> the best SCSI controller.

AFAIK, they work fine.  Just steer clear of the 2940A revs, they are
inferior cards.  Ultra-wide may be overkill for you if you don't have
devices that use it.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major