On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 18:55 +0100, Kevin Thorpe wrote:
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Michel van Deventer michel@van.deventer.cx wrote:
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 10:45 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
On 04/07/11 10:23 AM, Kevin Thorpe wrote:
The only PCI-X card I have is an old ICP Vortex RAID controller and the Dell hangs with that installed (BIOS is disabled).
It's only for a tape drive so performance isn't really an issue.
parallel scsi is becoming somewhat archaic, and probably getting harder to find, but I've always liked the LSI Logic scsi cards.
for PCI-X, that would be a LSI-U320, and for PCI-E X4, a LSU20320IE (both those have internal and external and external connectors on the same U320 SCSI channel)
a few more choices here, http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/scsi_hbas/in... (some have dual channels, others have different connectors)
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 ;)
It already has a PERC6 (I think) but that's fully occupied with the RAID. Am I asking for trouble having both installed?
No that should not be a problem. The PERC4 is fully supported under Centos btw ;)
Regards,
Michel
p.s. I have a PERC4 available if you nee one, please contact me offlist, we can work something out.