On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 05:42:52PM +0100, Damian Dimmich wrote: > Does anyone know if the eisa based compaq (181132-001) Smart Array scsi > Controller 2CH would work in an sgi system? I have an indigo 2 at the > moment and am looking to get a better scsi card into it. I know the eisa > bus is not fully supported/tested on the indigo2's, but i would be happy > to see how far I can get it to work :). > > A different compaq eisa scsi controller would be interesting too. There seems > to be quite a few of those floating around on e-bay. The EISA support for the Indigo 2 has never been more than rudimentary. I think right now only PIO cards will work which will exclude about any decent piece of hardware. Yes, the driver for the onboard WD33C93 controller is _bad_ and extremly slow. Ralf