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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SCSI interfaces - originally used to attach peripherals like disks, scanners and tape drives - have mostly been superseded by and .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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redundancy in a single SCSI target

following-on from my earlier question about resurrecting an ancient Intergraph 6800 machine (licence file for extra logins on ancient Unix (CLIX) system), the original problem was a failed hard disk so This Must Not Happen Again. All the crucial…
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SCSI Windows NT from vmware to virtualbox

We are trying to virtualize an old Windows NT 4.0 server in a bad shape. We've managed to create an vmdk image using vmware converter coldclone boot cd and we can successfully run it on vmware workstation which works flawlessly but we want to…
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How to get HDD parameters from SCSI controller

The SCSI controller we are using is IBM RAID M1015 and a SATA 3 HDD is attached to it. Now the question, is there any way to get the HDD specific parameters like HDD Model number/Manufacturer, Storage Size, rpm, transfer speed (3/6 Gbps?)…
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How do I get individual SCSI drives to show up as primary/secondary drives?

I am working on decommissioning an old server for a client. The server is an older Dell PowerEdge 1600sc with four SCSI drives. Two are stand-alone, and the other two are in RAIDx (not sure the actual RAID id). It does not have an integrated RAID…
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Formatting an HP ProLiant DL380 G4

I have an old HP ProLiant dl380 G4 server whose hard disk needs to be formatted. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to do so. For one, it doesn't seem to be detecting any Hard Drives attached to the Server. The Hard Disks show up in the Ctrl+A option…
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Qemu: can I set the serial number on a virtual SCSI device?

I'm using libvirt+KVM+Qemu on Ubuntu 11.04. I have some scsi devices like this: …
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Solaris 10 new disk discovering

I'm having issues with a Solaris 10 SPARC host... It seems not able to discover newly provisioned disks. The disks are fed through a QLogic 2300 FC HBA. I've tried cfgadm -al/cfgadm -f -c configure c0 + cfgadm -f -c configure c1, devfsadm -Cv as…
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SAS vs SAS2 interface

I´m pretty new to this server environment and I´m looking to expand the capacity of our HP Proliant DL385 G2 server. I want to replace the 146 GB disks with 300 GB disks. My question is: Can I use a SAS2 disks instead of SAS?
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Symantec backupexec troubleshooting issues with a Dell Robotic tape Library in Windows 2003

I’m running Symantec BackupExec 12.0 on a Windows 2003 server. After I powered down my SCSI tape drive (Dell PowerVault 124t autoloader) it no longer shows up in Backup Exec in the device pool. So far, I have updated firmware on the tape unit…
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How to set up an Infiniband SRP Target?

I want to set up a server as a SCSI Target. How good are the open source implementations? What is the tutorial one? How is performance and reliability? How dependent is the OS? How much is built in typically? I was looking at CentOS How…
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Seagate Cheetah Size

I just got some replacement drives for a server here, went to pop one in, and it turns out that the 72Gig for a Seagate is slightly below the 72gig of the Maxtors that we currently have. Does anyone know if there is anything hidden on the drive…
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Does Hyper-V support SCSI Pass-through discs in a Server 2003 R2 VM?

I'm running into some difficulties getting pass-through disks to be accessible to a Hyper-v server 2003 r2 virtual machine. Host OS : Server 2008 R2 full w/Hyper-V role Guest OS : Server 2003 R2 (Windows Home Server) The guest's OS disk is a…
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What kind of SCSI terminator do I need?

I'm connecting a PowerVault 114T tape drive to a server with an Adaptec 29160 SCSI card. I know i need a terminator on the tape drive, but not sure exactly what kind I need. Do I need a multimode or SE terminator? EDIT - Like @Chopper 3 said, the…
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source for enterprise disks

whats your source for scsi/sas disks - to replace breakage or expand existing systems? the usual suspects (newegg, pricewatch, ZZF) seem to have limited selection.
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What is the SCSI RAID channels?

What is the SCSI RAID channels? I.e. what is the difference between, say, 1-channel RAID controller and 2-channel RAID controller? Is it for data throughput, number of RAID arrays I can create on controller, number of disks I can plug into…
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