I have had this card for years, and it has always been a good card to me. Heck, I still use it today, and I have had it almost ten years. That is pretty good lifespan for a PC component, if you ask me.
Here is the dmesg output of the card with nothing attached to it when the module for it is loaded:
Code:
sym0: <875J> rev 0x4 at pci 0000:01:0a.0 irq 19
sym0: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking
sym0: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM
sym0: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware.
sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
scsi2 : sym-2.2.3