From: John R Pierce Sent: February 3, 2011 16:41
On 02/03/11 3:32 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
From: compdoc Sent: February 3, 2011 15:23
I have an Altos G510 server, (two xeon sockets) and it has a Megaraid scsi 320-0X PCI-X controller that 5.5 recognizes.
Maybe there's a chance it will do so for yours...
I am currently using 320-2X units in our Acer G700 and G701 servers with CentOS 4.8 and 5.5 without problems. My concern was with using the 320-2E units in an HP DL380G5 box with CentOS 5. This is something that I have no experience with and I was asking if anyone had had it working in the HP box.
does that box have PCI-X slots rather than PCI-Express ? if it does, and the controller is supported by the OS, there's really no reason for it not to work.
if you want to use it in conjunction with built in drive bays, internal cabling may be an issue. if its for use with external arrays, that should be fine.
The DL380G5 comes with a "PCI riser" cage that has 3 PCIe slots. There is an optional "PCI-X/PCI-E Riser" which has 2 PCIx slots and one PCIe. This would be an option for us and it should work with the 320-2 cards that we already have. The only problem with this would be that I have three external arrays with two UW320 ports each therefore I would need three controller cards.
I have done a search on the PCI-X/PCI-E Riser and, although it has been discontinued, there does seem to be a reasonable supply available.
I will reconsider the need for all three arrays and see if I can go with the PCI-X cards.
Thanks for your suggestion.
Regards, Hugh