zentara wrote:

"Dana J. Laude" wrote:

Well you don't need a superfast ultrawide scsi card for a scanner. :-) Do get a PCI, Busmastering, card if possible. A nice extra feature is a rom-bios, which allows you to boot from cd's like SuSe, but it isn't a nesescity. It would add around $20 to the price. And of course you would need a scsi cdrom drive. But think toward the future when you will want that scsi cdrom writer. If you had the rom-bios, you could boot from it. Or same if you picked up a scsi hard drive. I got a SIIG card at a discount. It runs good, except it needs the initio kernel patch everytime I do a kernel upgrade. It had a rom-bios, at a cheap price, but for simplicity I would go with a Advansys card. They are all supported by the kernels, no patches, no problems.

One thing to watch for when buying the card, is what sort of external connector it provides. Most scanners use those cheaper db-25 cables, but most scsi cards now use a hdp-50 mini connector. So you will either need to get a card that has a 25 pin connector, or get a db25-to-hdp50 adaptor cable.

I did see at CDW? a SIIG PCI scsi card, without rom-bios, and with a db25 external connector. It was only $29 I seem to remember. That wouldn't be bad. It would let you use your existing scanner cable, and let you have an internal scsi cdrom, or hard drive.

Thanks much for the advice! Now that Adaptec is putting out the specs to the higher end cards I might just wait a bit, since a bigger hd is in my future. ;) A bootable hd or cd-rom is a nice addition. Right now I'm running a 2 and 2.5GB EIDE's with a 32x cd-rom, which works fine..., but I'll need more space shortly, so adding a 10GB SCSI (whatever..UW, etc) and transferring the old drives to two systems laying around here would work. (Networking is cool!) ;-) Dana - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>