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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SCSI interfaces - originally used to attach peripherals like disks, scanners and tape drives - have mostly been superseded by and .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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Can I reuse HP Proliant SCSI drives in a custom build?

I have an old HP Proliant DL385. Can I use the drives (36.4 GB - 10k, ULTRA320 SCSI) on a custom build, or is the interface a proprietary HP specific one? What support do I need from the motherboard? Thanks. edit: corrected title as per t1nt1n
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USB SCSI enclosure?

We've got a stack of SCSI HDDs from a very old server that recently bit the dust. There's some chance that there is salvageable and valuable data on the drives. Are there USB enclosures akin to the SATA and IDE enclosures that are so common today…
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windows server 2003 "setup cannot copy the file oemsetup.inf"

I'm trying to install the SCSI drivers for a Dell server with a PERC 4e/si card in it. I can specify the driver via the F6 and load the driver with S procedure, but once I select the partition and move forward with the installation, I get the…
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SATA RAID or SCSI RAID Old IBM Server

Need your help on this one. One of my SCSI HD failed in RAID 1, thinking about replacing it, but can no longer find 73gb drive on the market (only used available). Option 1: Clone remaining SCSI HD to 2 new 146gb+ SCSI HD (Ultra320), and possibly…
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Can I re-assign the scsi letter for virtual floppy?

Having issues with oracle starting up in our cluster environment due to disks not lining up properly. For example, on the problematic host, I see the following. [1:0:0:0] cd/dvd AMI Virtual CDROM 1.00 /dev/sr0 [2:0:0:0] disk AMI …
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Looking for scsitools (specifically scsiinfo) for Fedora / Centos

I am looking for the scsitools package for fedora. Ubuntu has such a .deb named "scsitools". Specifically I need to find out the vendor, serial number etc. of hard disks connected to a machine. scsiinfo -i and scsiinfo -s seem to…
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MSA30 Linux CLI Configuration?

Can some one help me shed some light on this please? I have a MSA30 hooked up to a HP Proliant DL380 G4 running SuSE SLES Linux. My question is how do I configure the hard drives connected to be in a JBOD setup. Would this be with hpacucli or though…
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Perc 4 Configuration - Drives not showing up

Hello I am trying to configure raid on a PERC 4 running in a PowerEdge 1850. When I go into the bios configuration for the raid controller the drives I have attached are not present. Specifically when I go to the easy configuration screen all I…
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kernel: scsi 0:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device

Yesterday, OSSEC sent me an alerting email: Jul 29 21:25:16 SVR4149 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 334634969 Jul 29 21:25:16 SVR4149 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000 Jul 29 21:25:16 SVR4149 kernel:…
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Which controller should I buy for a SCSI-3 tape drive?

I have a HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960, which have a SCSI-3 interface. It is a quite old tape drive, so which SCSI controller should I buy? Update It is for PCI or PCI-X and the server is running RHEL 5.6.
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Adaptec SCSI Card 39160. What to do with it?

Almost 10 years ago I bough an Adaptec SCSI Card 39160 for two Hitachi hard disks, with 80/68 pins adapters and cables and all the accoutrements. The hard disks died after 2 years (so much for reliability), I eventually realized that SCSI was…
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View attached SCSI devices under Windows SBS SP2

I've a problematic HP StorageWorks autoloader drive running on a Windows Server Standard FE SP2 (aka: Windows SBS 2008) box. As my first port of call in terms of problem diagnosis, I thought I'd check that the device was actually showing up on the…
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Adding a single 300Gb SCSI drive to poweredge 2850

I have a 2850 setup with 3 146Gb drives, two partitions 1 12GB system with server 2003 sp2 and 1 261Gb Data. I am strapped on disk space on the data partition having to push data around. I wanted to add a 300Gb single drive for lesser critical…
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motherboard died, not replacing.. how do i mount SCSI drives and recover data?

I have an old IBM x206 with Ultra 320 SCSI drives, the motherboard died and Im not replacing it but the data on the drives is still important. I dont have another similar server to hand, is there some kind of enclosure / caddy that can read SCSI…
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Connecting a Direct Attached Storage array to multiple servers

Is it possible to connect multiple servers to the same Direct Attached Storage array, something like the Dell MD1200 or MD1220? I see from the specs that each one of these arrays supports two controller cards, each with two SAS ports. So does this…
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