[rescue] U10 EIDE problems ...

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Thu Aug 15 02:37:48 CDT 2002


On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 02:12:02AM -0500, max trefonides wrote:
> I rescued a U10 that according to the guy who had it last had 
> intermittent but disastrous IDE bus problems, (it killed two disks and a 
> cdrom drive)  I am hoping that I can avoid the problems using a SCSI 
> card, what recommendations do people have for something cheap?  Tekram?  
> I would like to spend less than $80 ...

Get a Symbios 53C875-based card; they're usually on eBay for around $50.

Same card Sun sells, they just charge more for the Sun part number sticker. 8-)

Bill

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bill bradford
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austin, texas



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