Mediator pci.library 11.0

[Acill]

@ DJS

thanks this is great news:hammer:

@ all

I want to put a scsi pci card in my Mediator and understand the Adaptec AHA-2940W/2940UW is the one to get for our Mediators?

Yup, search on ebay. I picked one up for $10 shipped. It works well, but keep in mind it cant be used to boot from.

[Acill]

And it's about as slow as onboard (motherboard) IDE.

Not true, it's nearly as fast as my CSP0C is.

[Acill]

Since this is contrary to what even the person who wrote the driver said, I'd like to see some benchmarks.  RSCP, Sysspeed or whatever.

From the thread:
http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?22229-Ultrawide-SCSI-on-A1200-Mediator-Adaptec-PCI
roy_bates
                                                                             hi darren,
 
 
is there a chance of an update to this driver i couldent get more than 3mbs from the 15000rpm drives i have.
 
 
also ive had 4 drives in a chain just to see if it works and it  does.(although ive had to set up the drives to start one at a time so  they wont overload the psu,lol)                                            
                                       
             

Daz

     

                                         
                     
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Originally Posted by roy_bates                                  
                 hi darren,
 
 
is there a chance of an update to this driver i couldent get more than 3mbs from the 15000rpm drives i have.
                     
     
 
I'm afraid the speed is a product of how fast I can transfer data  across the Mediator bus, I have streamlined the read and write as much  as I can,  so there is no major update due at the moment, but I will be  taking a look at the code in the near future. I might see something.

HD Tool Box picks it up and you can select the wide check box to show the entire bus as well. The last driver released is quite improved if you read the readme and docks from it on Aminet. Also remember if you put a slow device on the chain the card will drop down to the slowest speed of the slowest device. That is how SCSI works.

[Acill]

When I have time to put it in and test I will. Maybe I am wrong in this, but I remember it being faster than described. This also isnt the thread for this.

[Acill]

I would not want to run any software from Elbox, they are infamous for including malware (eg. destruction of RDBs).

That was a single drive for USB and is no longer the case. I wouldnt give my mediator up for anything. Its solid.

[Acill]

ok found and isntalled Adaptec scsi card and drive in my 1200T but now my Spider II USB stopped working and Hd Toolbox not seeing new scsi drive?

tired running Mediator setup again with no luck & the scsi card seems to be working as there's a LED on and the SCSI drive is spinning

Select the right device and its a wide device check the box for wide?