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.
- AMI Fast Disk VLB/EISA (BusLogic compatible)
- Adaptec AVA-1505/1515 (ISA) (Adaptec 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 (EISA) / 284x (VLB) (AIC-7770)
- Adaptec AHA 2920
- Adaptec AHA-2940/3940 (PCI) (AIC-7870) (since 1.3.6)
- Adaptec AVA1502E (ISA/VLB) (AIC-6360). Use the AHA 152x driver
- Always IN2000
- BusLogic (ISA/EISA/VLB/PCI) (all models)
- 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 329x (EISA) (Adaptec 154x compatible)
- Future Domain TMC-16x0, TMC-3260 (PCI)
- Future Domain TMC-8xx, TMC-950
- 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.
- 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 53c7x0, 53c8x0 (PCI)
- Qlogic / Control Concepts SCSI/IDE (FAS408) (ISA/VLB)
- Quantum ISA-200S, ISA-200MG
- Seagate ST-01/ST-02 (ISA)
- 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
- Parallel port SCSI adapters
- Non Adaptec compatible DTC boards (327x, 328x)