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Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices.

The physical SCSI interfaces - originally used to attach peripherals like disks, scanners and tape drives - have mostly been superseded by and .

The SCSI command set that was originally defined for (parallel) SCSI buses has been carried forward with minimal change for use with , , Serial Attached SCSI , and other transport layers.

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Fiber tape changer missing on lsscsi

I'm configuring a server with Bacula to manipulate backups on a Dell TL4000 connected to the server via Fiber. During the configuration of the Bacula Director I've accessed the bconsole to see if the configuration was being applied. Once I've exited…
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Slim ATAPI or Slim SATA to SCSI HD50

Is it at all possible to connect a Slim-ATAPI connector (CD-ROM drive) to SCSI HD50? I have an internal CD-ROM drive with a Slim-ATAPI connector, that I would like to connect to an older 50 pin SCSI device - if…
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VMWare ESXI 6.5 VM cannot boot with second HDD

I have a 6.5 VM running off a local datastore, no network involved except for the web UI, no vCenter, dead simple. With a single Virtual disk, all is fine. If I want a second virtual disk (another .vmdk on the same datastore) then I can add this…
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RAID SCSI Hard Drive: 73GB vs 72.8GB

I know that this may be a stupid question to some but I don't often work with SCSI drives with what seems to be non-standardized sizes compared to SATA drives. I currently have a RAID1 of two drives on an old Dell server and one of the drives has…
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Dell PowerEdge 1750/1850 using *SATA*?

we're currently looking for a cheap, but reasonably powerful, server to collect analytics and act like a firewall for our Web Application server. It seems a PowerEdge 1750 or 1850 would do the job nicely, but they both appear to only accept SCSI…
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cfgadm hangs when attempting to attach SCSI device

I'm trying to hot plug a EXB-8900 tape drive into Solaris 10 and having issues. Here's the process I follow. Please note this has worked: cfgadm -x insert_device c4 yes at the first prompt to suspend SCSI activity on the c4 HBA. Next I connect and…
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SCSI PowerEdge Server + pulling data off

I have a old Dell PowerEdge Server that has data on it that I need to pull off and was wondering what is the best way to do it. The size of the data is probably around 100gig. Once the data is pulled off I need to read it on another computer. Should…
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80 pin SCSI Raid Controller to SATA SSD's on IBM e336

I have an Old IBM e336 1U Sever. Currently the only Hard drive in the system is a Ultra160 SCSI drive. This drive is old and making some noises indicating that its life is going to end soon. Though my data is backed up I need something to run the…
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Extra storage space for HP Proliant DL380 G5

I have a HP Proliant DL380 G5, SAS Hard-disk no space left, I am planning to buy HP StorageWorks MSA20 Sata - thus, a total of 6TB area will be formed. I do not know how to do connection server with storagework. I guess I need to buy them; One…
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Can an IBM ServeRAID 4mx controller work on a non-IBM server?

I have some IBM ServeRAID 4mx controllers on some aging IBM x360 servers (Pentium III 1.5 ghz CPUs); I also have a SCSI disk array with two ports, which can be attached to those controllers; and I have two more recent servers which would be a lot…
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What kind of interface card do I need for a SCSI tape library?

I've recently come into possession of an Arcvault 24, a combination tape libary/LTO4 tape drive unit. It connects via a U320 SCSI link using HD68 wiring. The server that this library will be connected to is a HP DL160 G6. This device does not have…
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sas sense key data protect

I have several Hitachi Ultrastar SSD400M Model #HUSML4040ASS601. They had a block size of 520 and I was able to successfully format all but one of them using sg_utils' sg_format to 512. However, one of the drives reports "sense key data protect".…
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3 x 146 GB scsi hdd data recovery

Bought a new server with sff sata hdds. Before I got a chance to install the new server the old HP ProLiant DL385 Opteron 8218 with 3 x 146 gb scsi hdds has failed. I think the hard discs themselves are fine. Is there a way to get the data off the…
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/sys/class/scsi_host/host0 not found - get it back without reboot?

I have a oracle linux 5.8 virtual server (virtualized via oracle virtual manager, which is using xen), which has a couple of luns attached via scsi. Now I wanted to attache more luns, but found that /sys/class/scsi_host/host0, which is the scsi host…
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Backing up data from DELL Perc4 LSI controller

We had a failure of a critical server this morning. Most likely the PSU failed, now we need to Backup the data to another system. The server in question is a DELL 2800, featuring a built-in PERC4E SCSI controller with two hard disks (RAID1). Since…
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