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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