Any Socket AM2 motherboard support SCSI ULTRA 160???

[jquintela]

Hi,

I am wondering if there are any Socket AM2 motherboards that support SCSI ULTRA 160 interface, for a new fujitsu 36.7 GB 15,000 RPM hard drive that i bought for cheap. I want to use this hard drive, as a main hard drive for my new rig. If there aren't any motherboards that support this interface what could i do to make a socket AM2 motherboard compatible with this new hard drive? Any and all help is very much appreciated.

 

[dandragonrage]

Get an LSIU160 card. They're cheap. You can use them in regular (32/33) PCI slots.

 

[Peter]

Exactly. Or, if you can't find the LSI U160 anymore, use their current "U320" offer.

Mind that from "regular" 32-bit 33 MHz PCI, drive throughput will be limited to about 95 MB/s. With a single HDD, even a 15k rpm one, that won't be much of an actual limitation though.

 

[jquintela]

Well the cheapest pci controller i can find is the Adaptec 19160 U160 SCSI 68pin PCI Controller. I can buy it for about 25 to 30 bucks, but is it worth it? Also, isn't it more complicated than just buying a pci controller in order to get the SCSI hard drive working. For example, i heard that windows xp service pack 1 is needed for the driveers on the pci controller to work, because service pack 2 doesn't support them. Is this true? Is it just better to sell this hard drive, rather then spending money on a SCSI pci card? What's a very reasonable price to sell this fujitsu 15K rpm hard drive?

If you have any links on cheap U160 or U320 SCSI pci cards please share. 🙂

 

[jquintela]

anyone???

 

[dandragonrage]

That card is fine and it works fine on SP2

 

[Peter]

I'd go with LSI rather than Adaptec, exactly to avoid the (almost traditional) driver fuss with the latter.

There is a budget series, with "U160" and "U320" cards that do exactly what their names suggest.