On Oct 10, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Mark Benson wrote:
On 9 Oct 2005, at 21:30, John Niven wrote:
9gb scsi drives.... i have a funny feeling that wasnt cheap...
Ironically given this thread, they were free! They came from my last
place of work and were originally installed in Red Hat linux farm
machines :-) Mostly SCSI-3 Quantum Viking II's.
I like to think they are happier now in retirement :-)!
Interesting that they work at all. As I posted on a recent thread here
I have a lot of struggles with Quantum server drives. I have 1 Atlas V
that works on non-PC controllers but I have a Viking-II and an Atlas
IV that refuse to work on anything I have (I don't have a SCSI PC).
As I said before, these were from servers built from components so the
disks were original Quantum without any OEM hacks.
I think a PC with a SCSI card is really useful for formating disks. Any
PC will do, and say an Adaptek 2940 card will do SCSI-2 and SCSI-3. You
don't even need an OS since the utility is built into the cards ROM.
Cheers,
John
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