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SCSI Hard Drives

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hardwarenewbie35

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I got a Seagate SCSI Hard Drive as a present and I need a SCSI controller for it. I want a good controller with affordable prices.

Can anyone link me to a controller that I should get? I wanna use this drive ASAP. 😀
 
Here's an LSI Logic Ultra160 controller and you also need an LVD cable and terminator. I'm assuming it's an LVD 68-pin drive (Ultra2, Ultra160 or Ultra320).

The LSI Logic controller is U160 but that'll be fine for an Ultra320 drive too. It happens to be 64-bit PCI too, so don't be shocked when half its contacts hang out in empty air. Works fine anyway. 🙂
 
I have both a 865PE and 875P chipset motherboards. And the drive is a 68-pin drive. Is the SCSI controller that is linked above will work fine? Please help.


What is a PCI-X motherboard?
 
Probably a Ceetah 15K.3 then, nice drive 🙂

PCI-X is a 64 bit PCI slot, running at a max of 133 MHz rather than 33 that' the max provided by "mainstream" 33 MHz / 32 bit slots.
This gives you 1 GB/Sec of bandwidth, rather than the 133 MB/Sec you'll get out of a 33/32 slot, such as the ones on an i876/i865 motherboard.
 
Yep, I got the Ceetah 15K.3 drive. It will be nice if I can get the right controller and start messing with it. 😀


I guess I will do fine on 865PE/875P motherboards then.


Is the LSI Logic Ultra160 controller right or should I be looking at something else?] Please lemme know. Thx. 😀
 
The LSI Logic U160 is what I run my Cheetah 15k.3 on. The other card in that shot is my Adaptec 19160, which performs the same and costs much more. Go for it 😎 Congrats on the new drive, you'll like it! 🙂

Edit: by the way, consult your motherboard's owners' manual and try to pick a PCI slot that doesn't share its IRQ, or at least that doesn't share its IRQ with another high-traffic item. If you need help, LMK what mobo you've got and I'll track down the manual and help with that. Also remember that to a motherboard, all the PCI-based disk controllers are "SCSI" and sometimes you can't get it to boot from the drive you want it to, when using a soldered-down PCI controller that's built onto the mobo itself (SATA, for example, or a Promise IDE RAID controller).
 
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