Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

2011-04-08 Thread Benjamin Hackl
On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:46:01 -0700 John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 04/07/11 10:51 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: Dell typically shipped Adaptec cards; I seem to remember 39160's being shipped in some 1850's I have. That would be more than enough performance for what you want, and they

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

2011-04-08 Thread Cal Sawyer
I like my Atto ExpressPCI UL5D. Supports LUNs 2TB, which iirc, Adaptec still (?) doesn't. - csawyer   -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Hackl Sent: 08 April 2011 10:31 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re:

[CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

2011-04-07 Thread Kevin Thorpe
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. thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

2011-04-07 Thread John R Pierce
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

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

2011-04-07 Thread Michel van Deventer
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.

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

2011-04-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, April 07, 2011 01:23:45 PM 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). Dell typically shipped Adaptec cards; I seem to remember 39160's being shipped in some 1850's I have. That

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

2011-04-07 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:45 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com 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

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

2011-04-07 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Michel van Deventer mic...@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

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

2011-04-07 Thread Michel van Deventer
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 18:55 +0100, Kevin Thorpe wrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Michel van Deventer mic...@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

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

2011-04-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/07/11 10:49 AM, Michel van Deventer wrote: 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 ;) raid controllers are problematic for tape devices. many don't support plain

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

2011-04-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/07/11 10:52 AM, Kevin Thorpe wrote: As for the archaic bit this is a brand new LTO 3 drive so it's not something from a rummage sale. I'd have had a SATA one if it was available. newer LTO tapes are often SAS or FC, but yeah, SCSI is still on the menu for them.

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

2011-04-07 Thread Michel van Deventer
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 12:17 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 04/07/11 10:49 AM, Michel van Deventer wrote: 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 ;) raid controllers

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

2011-04-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/07/11 10:51 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Thursday, April 07, 2011 01:23:45 PM 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). Dell typically shipped Adaptec cards; I seem to remember 39160's being

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

2011-04-07 Thread Drew
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Michel van Deventer mic...@van.deventer.cx wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 12:17 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: snip raid controllers are problematic for tape devices.   many don't support plain passthrough SCSI Well, I did use one of these controllers for a tape