SCSI stuff under linux

[mrweirdo]

I recently was given some SCSI drives and I allready had a controler. I am hoping to be able to use this under fedora linux with kernel 2.6.

The controler card I am using is going to be a diamond Fireport 40 with a Maxtor Atlas 10K IV 36GB hard drive and a 40GB tape backup drive. Both drives came out of a dell server

Anyone know if there are any troubles under linux with this controler card?

 

[Nothinman]

For a better answer you need to find the chipset on the card. From a quick google search it appears to be a NCR53c875-j which should work fine, but I've not used one personally to be able to vouch for them.

 

[groovin]

wasnt there a website called linux-compatible.com or linuxcompatible? cant remember...

 

[Goosemaster]

install the acscii[sic] drivers/ modules in the kernel compile with any distro.


To use them starting from scratch fedora should recognize them.


Instead of hda1, hda2,hda3 for example,

you will see these drives refered to as sdc1,sdc2,sdc3 etc

 

[TonyRic]

The Fireport 40 is well supported in Linux.

 

[XeonTux]

Isn't that an old UW card that doesn't even support LVD? If so performance is going to suck even with that bad-ass drive you got.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: XeonTux
Isn't that an old UW card that doesn't even support LVD? If so performance is going to suck even with that bad-ass drive you got.

Suck compared to what? Doing what?

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: XeonTux
Isn't that an old UW card that doesn't even support LVD? If so performance is going to suck even with that bad-ass drive you got.

Suck compared to what? Doing what?

I found a linux mailing list message relating to that card that was from 1997 and was built by Diamond Multimedia, so I think as scsi stuff goes that thing is going to be pretty obsolete.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: drag

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: XeonTux
Isn't that an old UW card that doesn't even support LVD? If so performance is going to suck even with that bad-ass drive you got.

Suck compared to what? Doing what?

I found a linux mailing list message relating to that card that was from 1997 and was built by Diamond Multimedia, so I think as scsi stuff goes that thing is going to be pretty obsolete.

Obsolete compared to what? Obsolete for doing what?

I can keep asking the same questions, or they can be answered.

Ultra Wide is what, 40MB/s? Not too bad for free. Plus, the tape backup won't be able to do much more than that. While I agree that a UW2 or U160 would be a lot better (and there would be a better chance that the atlas drive will actually work with it), I wouldn't pass up free UW scsi.

Hell, it's faster than half (literally half) of the scsi setups I have.

 

[drag]

Sure Sure.

I didn't say throw it away. Jeez.

It's just obsolete. Even generic IDE drives can do better the 40MB/s nowadays.

Like a Riva TNT video card obsolete. It's slow, it's old. Generic cheapy stuff runs faster and probably quieter. etc etc etc.

Although good hardware that was is still reliable hardware today. So is it bad for running a file server from? No.


I have a old 486 (oc'd to 86mhz using a pentium add-on do-dad.) with a EISA bus and 3 2.4gig scsi drives and a propriatory Compaq raid controller. I still mess around with that, and the fireport 40 would kick that guy's @ss.

So don't get all defensive about your doorstop masquarading in the form of ancient Sun SparcStation.

If somebody offered me a free SCSI controller, especially one like the Fireport I wouldn't pass it up. I would definately NOT pass it up.

Hell I bet he got it for free because WinXP doesn't even have drivers for it.


edit:

Also that Tape drive rocks. It is realy realy cool stuff as long as the tapes themselves aren't to expensive.

I would absolutely love to have one.

I have one on my proliant, but I don't think it would be fun to back up my files 2 gigs per tape for by 200gigs of storage.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: drag
Sure Sure.

I didn't say throw it away. Jeez.

It's just obsolete. Even generic IDE drives can do better the 40MB/s nowadays.

Like a Riva TNT video card obsolete. It's slow, it's old. Generic cheapy stuff runs faster and probably quieter. etc etc etc.

Although good hardware that was is still reliable hardware today. So is it bad for running a file server from? No.

See, I knew we basically agreed on this. It just has to be seen in perspective.

Although, I do have doubts that the controller will work with those drives, but I'm really a scsi moron (despite the scsi setups I have ).

I have a old 486 (oc'd to 86mhz using a pentium add-on do-dad.) with a EISA bus and 3 2.4gig scsi drives and a propriatory Compaq raid controller. I still mess around with that, and the fireport 40 would kick that guy's @ss.

So don't get all defensive about your doorstop masquarading in the form of ancient Sun SparcStation.

:heart: sparcstation 10 :heart: sparcserver 20

If somebody offered me a free SCSI controller, especially one like the Fireport I wouldn't pass it up. I would definately NOT pass it up.

Should have told me, I gave 2 U160 controllers to a friend.

Hell I bet he got it for free because WinXP doesn't even have drivers for it.

 

[jose]

That card is an old uw controler & the drive is a new u160 lvd drive. They can work together, but you will need a uw active terminator, because the drive doesn't do active termination.
You'd be better off getting a 2940u2w or better card off ebay then messing w/ that old card. The tape drive is probably a 50pin , so a 2940u2w or a 29160n would work.

Regards,
Jose