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

2009-11-17 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, this is the OP writing... John R Pierce wrote: Rainer Duffner wrote: Except that nowadays, some cheap desktop-motherboards may not know how to enable booting from such a card. I seriously doubt a SCSI card with a 50 pin (max 10 or 20MB/sec?) external connector is going to be used as

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

2009-11-16 Thread Frank Thommen
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

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

2009-11-16 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:43:28 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@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

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

2009-11-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Robert Heller schrieb: At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:43:28 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@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

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

2009-11-16 Thread Tim Nelson
- Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: 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

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

2009-11-16 Thread Frank Thommen
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

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

2009-11-16 Thread Les Mikesell
Tim Nelson wrote: - Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: 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

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

2009-11-16 Thread Tim Nelson
- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Tim Nelson wrote: - Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: 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

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

2009-11-16 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009, Tim Nelson wrote: I've never been able to get into the BIOS on it. It's almost like the card doesn't have one. When the system boots, there is not the usual 'addon card' operation where the card detects drives, displays it on the screen, then continues to POST. The system

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

2009-11-16 Thread Tim Nelson
- Bill Campbell cen...@celestial.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009, Tim Nelson wrote: I've never been able to get into the BIOS on it. It's almost like the card doesn't have one. When the system boots, there is not the usual 'addon card' operation where the card detects drives, displays

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

2009-11-16 Thread John R Pierce
Rainer Duffner wrote: Except that nowadays, some cheap desktop-motherboards may not know how to enable booting from such a card. I seriously doubt a SCSI card with a 50 pin (max 10 or 20MB/sec?) external connector is going to be used as a boot device. more likely, this is for some older

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

2009-11-16 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:16:57 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Robert Heller schrieb: At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:43:28 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi, for a specific application we need a low-profile SCSI card (PCI) with external 50pin