SCSI disk opinions

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 11:50 -0400, A. Khattri wrote:
> 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).

It ain't cheap. Just poorly documented. It is a MB-less chassis. I get
to equip it. For various odd reasons.

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

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Roger