Looking for a DYI SCSI enclosure on the cheap. Any ideas? [more inside]
posted by lattiboy on Sep 11, 2008 - 7 answers

RAID HBA help sought: Server has its internal drives RAID'ed by an internal RAID card. I am trying to add another SCSI HBA card so I can hook up a nifty external SCSI-to-SATA RAID DAS tower. Problem is, however I install the new HBA, it "hides" the existing internal RAID card, meaning that the server doesn't find its own internal drives and can't boot. What to do? [more inside]
posted by bartleby on Jul 24, 2008 - 5 answers

Got a 2000 server with PCI SCSI RAID card (Mirror) and the mobo seems to have died. I just want to recover the data and host it on another machine. How do I do that? [more inside]
posted by tslugmo on Jan 18, 2008 - 4 answers

I have 2 SCSI hard drives I need to retrieve data from. [more inside]
posted by disaster77 on May 1, 2006 - 8 answers

Can our Mac be killing any hard disk we put in it? [more inside]
posted by AmbroseChapel on Feb 21, 2006 - 10 answers

Yeah so I went the complete cheapo route and bought an Initio KM-910UW SCSI card from TigerDirect.com and I'm pulling the rest of my hair out. I can successfully see all 4 fujitsu and 2 seagate 18 GB drives in their Ctrl-I (like Adaptec) BIOS. I've got zero conflicts in Device Manager and my Events are so clean minus what's mentioned below. No matter what combinations I try, e.g. disks/slots/drivers/try or buy software from download.com. I'm unable to get more than one drive to format and work correctly. I've been able to format in any slot w/only one drive but as soon as I add a second or even a third or all six, the second drive will refuse to format and/or the system will probe to no end thus hanging the boot process or after boot get a BSOD or chkdsk after a reboot on the 1st drive... The main error in event viewer I get is that the card is not replying during the timeout limitation - "The device, \Device\Scsi\ini910u1, did not respond within the timeout period." Unfortunately my main computer BIOS (or the SCSI based BIOS) has no threshold for me to increase as far as timeout values go. My first hope is that b/c I'm such a Windows hater is that I'm missing something there. I'm a Sun SysAdmin and ex Oracle programmer/pseudo DBA. I'm desperately hoping that someone, somewhere has been able to get a Sun 6-drive Multipack to work w/a Windows XP IDE-based workstation. I'm properly terminated, I've tested so many combinations of drives, cables and slots it's disgusting. Thanks in advance for _any_ ideas, including a new Adaptec card that will hopefully do the trick. Windows always defeats my Unix logic...
posted by prodevel on Nov 2, 2005 - 7 answers

An excellent SCSI negative scanner seeks connection with firewire based Mac running OS X. What's a peripheral to do? [more inside]
posted by aladfar on Sep 13, 2005 - 4 answers

I have an old first generation HP Photo Smart scanner that has a SCSI interface. It came with a proprietary HP SCSI / ISA card that won't work in my newish Dell since the motherboard has only PCI slots. Third party dealers want $175 for the old, refurbished SCSI / PCI cards that I need. HP sells them directly for $92. Do I need to stick with the proprietary PCI card, or would a generic SCSI / PCI card that I can pick up for $15 work just as well?
posted by crank on Dec 30, 2004 - 11 answers