On 2 Jan 2010, at 03:09, J. Epperson wrote: > ... > "Support for up to five 1-inch, internal Ultra3 SCSI hard drives (with > hot-plug capacity when using the optional ROMB card)." > > The 3/Di ROMB was Adaptec, still supported in Linux by the aacraid > driver. > The 3/SC and 3/DC add-in cards were LSI, still supported by megaraid > driver. I run a 3/DC in my venerable Precision 530 home server on > Fedora > 12. > > Haven't seen a 2650 with the internal drive backplane connected to a > SC or > DC add-in, but the drives should also be hot-swappable in such a > config. > You just can't hot-swap if connected to vanilla SCSI.
Many thanks indeed for your reply. I had to look up ROMB - RAID on motherboard. I assume, then, that the moatherboard in fact has 2 RAID controllers - this PERC 3/Di and another, non-hotswap one - and the "ROMB key" was used simply to enable the higher-specification option at a different price-point? The ROMB kits seem pretty reasonable from breakers, anyway, so it looks like this shouldn't be a problem. Many thanks, Stroller. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
