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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SCSI interfaces - originally used to attach peripherals like disks, scanners and tape drives - have mostly been superseded by and .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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ntldr is missing error, is issue scsi/raid boot drive identification?

I stopped an ibm x series 266 server to clean it out. It has two scsi drives in raid 1, 36 gb. While I had the drives out for cleaning I started the server to get the fans running, to exhaust dust that was being stirred up. Now when it boots, after…
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SCSI Windows Setup on Dell Precision 670 Workstation…please help

Error Windows Setup: "setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer" This is not exactly a programming question but I thought you guys might be able to help. I just received a Dell Precision 670 workstation. Windows is not…
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Hard drive question about IBM x-series 345

We have an IBM x-series 345 that we're looking to upgrade, but I'm having a hard time finding out what the limitations of the hard drive controller are (an Adaptec AIC-7902 RAID controller, supporting U320 SCSI disks). The brochure says the maximum…
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server load, litespeed, scsi, nameserver fail: all messed up

First of all: I have very basic knowledge about linux servers. Here is our dedicated server details: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3450 @ 2.67GHz Total processor: 8 OS: Centos 32bit release 5.8 (Final) MySQL version: 5.1.66 PHP version: 5 total …
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How can I remotely tell what brand/model internal SCSI card is installed in a machine?

I am doing some consulting work for a previous employer upgrading and migrating old servers to new hardware. There is an existing file server (HP ProLiant DL380) that has an tape backup drive connected; it is using a SCSI interface and I'm pretty…
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kvm with virtio scsi and rbd

I'm currently using virtio-blk but I'd like to change to the new virtio-scsi, especially because it supports trim/ discard. The host is an ubuntu quantal system (kernel 3.5.0, qemu 1.2.0). This is how I start my guest: kvm -cpu kvm64 -smp…
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Dell 2970 - HP 1/8 G2 autoloader keeps falling off LSI 2032 SCSI chain

I've a somewhat irritating problem with a Dell 2970 that has a HP 1/8 G2 autoloader (the Ultrium LTO 2 model) attached to the Dell/LSI 2032 non-RAID SCSI card. In essence, sometimes the autoloader/drive completely fails to appear on the SCSI chain…
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How to block some disks from probes on Linux boot?

My linux host connected to SAN with FC interface. It connect with one path, and see some luns, that can't access, because they need anohter path, not available to host. On boot linux probe all lun he can see, get read error on unaccessible luns,…
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SCSI error: return code = 0x08000002, sense key: Aborted Command

The kernel logs: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7fffffff SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata2.00: irq_stat 0x40000008 ata2.00: cmd 61/08:f0:6f:5b:97/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 30 ncq 4096 out res 41/10:01:6f:5b:97/d5:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x481 (invalid…
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ServeRAID 8i setup

I purchased a second hand IBM eServer x345 with ServeRAID 8i and 3x 36GB SCSI hard drives. I'm having difficulty setting up an operating system as the drives don't appear in either Arch or Ubuntu Server (even after select the ips drivers) The…
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RHEL/CentOS reassign scsi device letter

if I remove the physical disk associated with /dev/sdb and add a new disk in the same slot, it will be assigned /dev/sdc (or whatever the next available letter is). Is there any way powered on that I can reassign that new disk to /dev/sdb? Running…
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Storage subsystem borking after server restart (all on a Parallel SCSI bus)

I have a server (with a SCSI HBA) connected to two Promise VTrak M310p RAID enclosure on the same bus. Everything is working fine until I have to restart my server. Once restarted, the server can no longer communicate with the enclosures: lots of…
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Install SAS/SATA backplane in Dell PowerVault 220S

Is the backplane of a Dell PowerVault 220S svc tag 3sdpcb1 (14 drive, 80 pin hot swap scsi) upgradeable to a SAS/SATA backplane & controller card replacement? The unit already seems to be quite modular, with slide-out replaceable scsi…
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SSD drives with SAS Interface

Why there aren't any SSD with SAS interface? Are there any technological limitations or it is simply because manufacturers haven't produced one yet?
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Supply power to more than 4 SCSI devices?

I was wondering, essentially I wanted to pool 4-10 SCSI drives in to a single computer, but of course only have a limited amount of 12v power cables to go in to them. What would be the proper way to deal with this, an external power supply unit, or…
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