[CentOS] Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?

Mon Nov 16 15:16:57 UTC 2009
Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de>

Robert Heller schrieb:
> At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:43:28 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> for a specific application we need a low-profile SCSI card (PCI) with 
>> external 50pin connector.  I thought about getting an "Adaptec SCSI Card 
>> 2930LP".  However I was not able to find any usable information about 
>> wether this card is supported by Linux/CentOS 5.x or not.  Does anyone 
>> have this card working with a CentOS 5.x machine?
>>     
>
> ALL Adaptec SCSI Cards (except for a few bleeding edge 64-bit PCI cards)
> are supported, out-of-the-box using stock kernels on all versions of
> CentOS (3.x, 4.x, and 5.x):
>   


Except that nowadays, some cheap desktop-motherboards may not know how
to enable booting from such a card.
It's years since I used SCSI-drives for desktop-use - and then it was a
workstation-class Dual-Xeon board, Socket 604.
So I can't say if this is still true today - but I've read that people
have problems like that.




Rainer