I've had good luck with Adaptec cards (except for the AAA-131U2).  On
the low end you might be able to pick up an antique Adaptec 1540/1542
SCSI-1. The 2940 series is a bit more recent. I've used 2940, 2940UW and
2940UW Pro.  IIRC, the 2940UW Pro has 3 different flavors of connectors
on it, that can be handy.
On my Redhat boxes w/ SCSI the ddisk devices show up as sda1, sdb1 etc.
for ex:
[steve@toonces steve]$ mount
/dev/sda7 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda8 on /tmp type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda9 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda5 on /var type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)

HTH,
Steve
j wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know of a good SCSI card for linux?
> 
> I recently got an external RAID server that connects to a SCSI card with a
> cable that I just happened to have laying around.
> When I boot the box with the stuff connected and turned on,
> it checks the ram and everything and then shows me a SCSI card bios thing,
> Then it recognizes all the scsi harddrives in the thing and goes to LILO.
> Having already set up the card (with kudzu), I boot and login, I look for
> stuff in /dev and find nothing, not even in /dev/scsi/*, and MAKEDEV didn't
> work either.
> 
> I looked on the web and found that the card I was using,
> an NCR 53C825 based card, was incompatible with linux.
> I think that is the problem because I tried plugging in an internal SCSI drive
> I had laying around and got the exact same result.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Eric
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