SCSI drives

Q

Alright, I have a server that someone threw out. It has a SCSI expansion card and 4 SCSI drives. They are obviously supposed to be set up in some sort of a RAID configuration, but I can't figure out how I'm supposed to cable them together. It also doesn't help that two of them are SCA and have to use adapters.

Is there a way to figure out how they go on the cables?

-Q

stitch

if i recall correctly they just need to be all on a seperate ID. your scsi card is usually 7, the drives could probably be whatever the hell you want as long as they don't conflict and the cable is terminated at the end.

Q

Would it matter that they're attached to a RAID card? IE would it expect them to be sequential, or something?

-Q

Bigjake52

the four drives should be there own ID, ed 1,2,3,4

Never use 7 as thats used by the card, and would a raid card be sata? as that makes no sence

nightice

RAID controllers have existed long before SATA...

Q probably won't see this, but as a general piece of reference, a lot of newer RAID controllers simply put each device on their own target on the SCSI bus...I've worked with a PowerEdge from 2001 that had plug-and-play SCSI.