SCSI disk opinions

[A. Khattri]

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

> But on to the hard part, as it turns out. I will be getting a computer
> chassis with a SCA backplane. It is 80-pin SCSI. I thought finding a
> nice disk to put on one side of this and a nice host adapter on the
> other would be easy. Think again. It is probably made worse by the
> really crappy details from the chassis maker. Anyway, SCSI controllers
> for 80-pin disks are scarce on the ground. And I do not want some
> zillion dollar raid thing. Thank heaven for google...

Nothing worse than have a cheap undocumented SCSI backplane (I speak from
experience there too).

BTW, most server mobos have SCSI (usually Adaptec) onboard these days.


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