Brother, can you spare a couple of SCSI SCA disks?
Ben Scott
dragonhawk at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 14:10:14 EDT 2007
On 10/22/07, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> What kind of hardware are these? Linux x86?
Linux x86. Actually, the hardware is x86 no matter what OS is
running on it. ;-)
Gory details are available:
http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Organizational/ServerHardware
> SCA SCSI is kind of rare on x86 ...
If you say so. I've been getting SCA on most of my x86 servers for
something close to a decade now. :) I suppose if you compare vs the
entire population of x86 boxes, including $200 Wal-Mart specials, then
yah, SCA is rare.
Of course, SCA is being displaced by SAS now, which has a yet
another incompatible connector. Yay standards! ;)
> ... bang/buck is low.
Divide by zero error. (The server was also "free".)
> If it's an option, how about a SATA PCI card & SATA drives?
Thought about it. Thing is, I think the SCA backplane also serves
to connect some of the chassis fans. If so, removing it (to make room
for the SATA and power cables and connectors) would be a bad idea.
Even if it is possible, we'd loose hot swap, and so disk changes would
be a pain. Not that we can't take it out of the rack if we have to,
but it'd be nice not to have to. That said, the chassis does have
room for a PCI card, and my hacksaw still works, so it may be an
option, should push come to shove. :)
-- Ben
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