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/index.html > (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 ;) Regards, Michel