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General Hardware Compatibility Notes
  • This list is comprised of components that have been known to work in most situations with the NetMAX product line. It specifies hardware that is explicitly supported by the drivers distributed with NetMAX.
  • The listed components have been tested to be compatible under most circumstances. However, they are not guaranteed to work in all situations, as conditions can exist in which the presence of other devices can cause conflicts the listed hardware, or with the system board itself. Some examples include:
    • Manufacturers of pre-built systems sometimes make modifications to the base components included that cause them to behave differently than expected.
    • Installing some hardware devices can cause other components in the system to stop working - or to work poorly - due to resource sharing between the components.
    • Many hardware manufacturers design hardware specifically for use with the Windows OS environment and make no consideration for other OS platforms. Consequently, purchasing the "newest" hardware available is generally not in the best interest of NetMAX customers until driver support is confirmed.
  • The NetMAX development team periodically performs hardware reviews of readily available components to test compatibility with our product line.



  • Other NetMAX compatible devices. The NetMAX Development team is compiling a list of devices that have been reported to be compatible with NetMAX products by users. These products have not been tested by our engineering staff and are therefore not directly supported. Any information that is available regarding installation or use of such hardware will be posted in the NetMAX knowledge base.
  • If you have had success with a piece of hardware, and would like to contribute to this list, send a message to NetMAX Support containing the version of the NetMAX software you are running, and the make,model, and firmware revision of the device with which you had success.



  • In the table below, items specified in the following format reflect an entire series of hardware 53c8xx series This denotes that all products from the specified vendor whose names begin with 53c8 followed by two characters (signified by the xx part of the description should be supported. Any incompatible members in the series are noted in the Notes column corresponding to the series.


Supported SCSI Adapters
Vendor Description Tested Driver Notes
ACARD 870U/W


Adaptec AHA1540/AHA1542


Adaptec AHA1520(B)/AHA1522 PCI SCSI Host Adapter
Adaptec AHA-2920A (PCI) PCI SCSI Host Adapter Note that the AHA-2920C is not supported.
Adaptec 2902 PCI SCSI Host Adapter
Adaptec 2910 PCI SCSI Host Adapter
Adaptec 293x series PCI SCSI Host Adapter
Adaptec 294x series PCI SCSI Host Adapter
Adaptec 394x series /3985 PCI SCSI Host Adapter
Symbios 53C896 controller PCI SCSI Host Adapter
Symbios 53c8xx series of controllers PCI SCSI Host Adapter NetMAX also supports all the Symbios 53C8XX controller family, except the 53C815, 53C810 revisions lower than 16, and 53C825 revisions lower than 16.
ICP vortex Corporation GDT3000(A/B)/3020(A) EISA SCSI Host Adapter
ICP vortex Corporation GDT3010A EISA SCSI Host Adapter
ICP vortex Corporation GDT2000/2020 EISA SCSI Host Adapter
ICP vortex Corporation GDT3050A EISA SCSI Host Adapter
ICP vortex Corporation GDT6000(B)/6020/6050/6010 PCI SCSI Host Adapter The following PCI GDT cards are also supported by this driver:
(6110) (6510) (6120) (6520) (6530) (6550) (6117) (6517) (6127) (6527) (6537) (6557) (6557-ECC) (6115) (6515) (6125) (6525) (6535) (6555) (6555-ECC) (6117RP) (6517RP) (6127RP) (6527RP) (6537RP) (6557RP) (6111RP) (6511RP) (6121RP) (6521RP) (6117RD) (6517RD) (6127RD) (6527RD) (6537RD) (6557RD) (6111RD) (6511RD) (6121RD) (6521RD) (6118RD) (6518RD) (6618RD) (6128RD) (6528RD) (6628RD) (6538RD) (6638RD) (6558RD) (6658RD) (7118RN) (7518RN) (7618RN) (7128RN) (7528RN) (7628RN) (7538RN) (7638RN) (7558RN) (7658RN) (6519RD) (6619RD) (6529RD) (6629RD) (7519RN) (7619RN) (7529RN) (7629RN)
Always IN IN2000 ISA SCSI Host Adapter
Seagate ST01/ST02 PCI SCSI Host Adapter
Future Domain TMC-885/TMC-950 PCI SCSI Host Adapter
Trantor T128/T128F/T228 PCI SCSI Host Adapter
UltraStor 14F/24F/34F PCI SCSI Host Adapter
AdvanSys (ConnectCom) ABP3922-00/ABP3925-00 PCI Fast SCSI Host Adapter AdvanSys is owned by ConnectCom
AMD AM53/79C974 PCI SCSI Host Adapter
AMD MegaRAID 418, 428, 438,466, 762, 490 and 467 PCI SCSI Host Adapter
BusLogic MultiMaster and FlashPoint PCI SCSI Host Adapter
NCR NCR53C8XX PCI SCSI Host Adapter This driver supports parity checking, tagged command queuing and fast synchronous data transfers up to 80 MB/s with wide FAST-40 LVD devices and controllers. This is the BSD ncr driver adapted to Linux for the NCR53C8XX family of PCI-SCSI controllers.
Qlogic ISP IQ-PCI, IQ-PCI-10, IQ_PCI-D PCI SCSI Host Adapter
Qlogic ISP2100 SCSI-FCP host adapter Fibre Channel SCSI Host Adapter
Qlogic FastSCSI PCMCIA SCSI Host Adapter
Western Digital 7000FASST SCSI PCI SCSI Host Adapter
IBM ServeRAID, II 3H, 3L PCI SCSI RAID controller

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