[CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

[Michel van Deventer]

On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 12:17 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 04/07/11 10:49 AM, Michel van Deventer wrote:
> > What about a PERC4 from Dell (LSI Megaraid , PCI-X). You should be able
> > to find them for a reasonable price on Ebay (70 euro). I used to have a
> > few lying around ;)
> >
> 
> raid controllers are problematic for tape devices.   many don't support 
> plain passthrough SCSI
Well, I did use one of these controllers for a tape drive actually :)
  
	Regards,

	Michel