>From: michael hast <evylrobot19@cox.net>
>Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: [SLUG] SCSI
>Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 13:16:13 -0600
>
>Hey guys!
>
> I'm thinking of using SCSI's on the new machine. I don't think I want
>to get a server board, but I've been looking at these PCI SCSI controller
>cards. Is that really as simple as it is? Does one simply plug the card
>into the slot, hook up the drives to it and format them to the system?
>(These things are strange and new to me. :-P) Plus, have any of you used
>them under Linux? I would really like to use a couple SCSI's as my only
>local hard drives and leave my IDE channels open for cd/dvd/zip/etc. Any
>imput is welcome. Thanks.
>
>--
>--Michael Hast (the evyl robot)
I have a Tekram DC-390U2W controller card with a Seagate HDD hooked up to it
in my desktop box. Here is the output from lspci -vv:
0000:02:0d.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c895 (rev
01)
Subsystem: Tekram Technology Co.,Ltd. DC-390U2W
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (7500ns min, 16000ns max), Cache Line Size: 0x20 (128
bytes)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
Region 0: I/O ports at b400 [size=256]
Region 1: Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Region 2: Memory at eb800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
And the output from lshw:
*-scsi
description: SCSI storage controller
product: 53c895
vendor: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic
physical id: d
bus info: pci@02:0d.0
logical name: scsi0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: scsi bus_master scsi-host
configuration: driver=sym53c8xx
resources: ioport:b400-b4ff iomemory:ec000000-ec0000ff
iomemory:eb800000-eb800fff irq:21
*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
product: ST336607LW
vendor: SEAGATE
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0.0:0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 0004
size: 34GB
capacity: 34GB
capabilities: 10000rpm
configuration: ansiversion=3
I also have two IDE hard disk drives installed. I use the SCSI drive to run
various flavors of Linux as well as Windows 2000 (although I've been
seriously considering wiping out that Windows partition as I haven't touched
it in a year). Every Linux distro that I have tried has been able to
automatically load the correct drivers and utilize both the Tekram card and
SCSI drive. The only tiny issue that I run into occassionally is that grub
is configured incorrectly during installation because of the presence of the
two IDE drives (the SCSI drive is percieved as hd2 during install but hd0
during boot).
Consider reading this SCSI guide to familiarize yourself with choosing and
setting up the hardware:
http://scsi.radified.com/
-Jonathon
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