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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SCSI interfaces - originally used to attach peripherals like disks, scanners and tape drives - have mostly been superseded by and .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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Problems partitioning an AIT-4 Tape

Drive: SONY AIT-4 drive SDX-900V series Ver.2.1 Media: AIT-4 (SDX4-200C) I am using SCSI commands to try and create 2 partitions on a tape (done the same thing before on VXA & DDS drives). The product specification manual implies that this is…
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CentOS 7 mpath Install, Can't Find /dev/centos/root

I am attempting to install CentOS 7 on an older SuperMicro H8QM8 motherboard (AIC-7902 SCSI controller, aic7xxx kernel module) with 3 attached drives. The Adaptec SCSI bios recognizes the drives and they have each been low-level formatted via the…
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"Core Charge" on defective server HDDs

I have collected a pretty decent amount of SAS and SCSI disks over the years that have a predictive failure warning. I was just about to throw them all out, but wondered if any of the manufacturers offer a buy back program or maybe a credit toward…
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How to replace SCSI with SATA or adapt SCSI to SATA drives

At first, I apologize for my question, but I am complete beginner. My friend gave me an old HP Proliant DL385 server which was replaced in bank, where he works, by newer stuff. Because of privacy, he removed all hard-drives from it and told me that…
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Fiberchannel disk Centos6.5

I got some fiberchannel disk shelves including several 300Gb SCSI drives and a HP c7000 blade system with multiple blades in it. As there is no storage controller (filer) available i have to do it without. The Idea is to use a blade that has access…
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What limits a Device not to detect multiple LUNs behind a single target?

What limits a Device not to detect multiple LUNs behind a single target? What is required to make this possible in broad perspective? I want to know if there are any limitations in SAS/SATA or SCSI? (<- My only focus areas)
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ESXi 5.1 SCSI and NMP Errors Filling vmkernel.log

On a group of ESXi 5.1 systems, I am seeing the following errors every 5 minutes or so: 2014-04-04T11:22:45.374Z cpu1:8193)NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:2319: Cmd 0x1a (0x4124022be3c0, 0) to dev "t10.DP______BACKPLANE000000" on path…
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M1500 having to cycle tape drive power when enumerating

I'm trying to use a M1500 tape library that is new to me. Whenever the SCSI bus enumerates (at BIOS load and when Linux is booting) the enumeration will hang until I turn off and back on the tape drive in the library. This is done by pushing buttons…
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IBM ServeRAID 2 channels SCSI controller compatible with IBM x366 server which use SAS onboard?

I own an IBM x360 server in which I have an IBM ServeRAID 2 channels SCSI controller for which I use the two channels. Channel 1: the server's HDD. Channel 2: IBM EXP300 HDD Enclosure. Will this IBM ServeRAID SCSI controller work and allow me to…
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Method of obtaining SCSI hardware on all virtual servers

I'm looking for a method to check what the SCSI hardware of a VM is and identify any servers that have virtualbuslogic. I'm trying via PowerCLI to make this happen although I'm not sure how to specify that I want to see just the servers with…
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Raid 5 scsi fault

I have no much knowledge about servers and I was looking all day around the internet about finding a solution to my raid 5 problem. All of a sudden two disks failed. The server won't boot (HP Proliant, windows 2003 R2, very old maybe 10 years old).…
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DL360 G2 SNMP drive failure location

I've got this service call with the snmp information provided below, about the drive failing in HP DL360 G2 server: Error log Event Type: Error Event Source: Storage Agents Event Category: Events Event ID: 1064 Date: 2013-06-07 Time:…
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How do I install my drives in the PowerEdge 2850

Just purchased a "fully functional" PowerEdge 2850 server on Ebay, but, it arrived without any drives! So much for "fully functional"! Anyway, I have drives arriving today. I only have 4 caddies, but, I noticed that there is only a cable attached…
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Forcing a SCSI HDD to rewrite a damaged sector

For a SATA/PATA HDD, this would be the normal procedure: http://www.sjvs.nl/?p=12 But a customer of mine has an old server with actual SCSI drives. I have tried re-writing the sector with dd to no avail; I keep getting the I/O error as per this…
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mpt2sas1: log_info(0x31120303): Disks dropped from RAID

In my syslog I get loads of: Mar 1 11:20:07 franklin kernel: [72947.878407] Waking error handler thread Mar 1 11:20:07 franklin kernel: [72947.878415] Error handler scsi_eh_1 waking up Mar 1 11:20:07 franklin kernel: [72947.878834] scsi_eh_1:…
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