Hi Ricardo,
www.scan.co.uk is the URL you need. Goto products and then hard drives, and scroll down to near the bottom, you'll find it listed as a SCA to 68pin/50pin Combo Converter. Scan charge £10 for delivery, so it might be worth you're while looking at the today only page as well :-)
Word of warning, Scan are great on price, but hopeless if you want to send anything back. It took a month to get some faulty Ram exchanged, but I have bought lots of other stuff with no problem.
If you're interested in setting up software RAID, it's fairly easy to do.
Just partition the disks you want to RAID with partition type fd (Linux RAID autodetect) and create /etc/raidtab. Mine looks like this :-
raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 0 persistent-superblock 1 chunk-size 16 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 device /dev/sda1 raid-disk 0 device /dev/sdb1 raid-disk 1
Where sda1 and sdb1 are the SCSI disks, but you can use IDE disks, or even a parallel port Zip drive (OK, I was bored!).
Then type mkraid /dev/md0 then mkfs -t ext2 /dev/md0
Assuming you have the correct module for your SCSI card loaded, it should detect the raid array at boot up. If not type raidstart /dev/md0
Hope that helps
Chris
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-----Original Message----- From: Ricardo Campos [mailto:corez23@linuxmail.org] Sent: 15 November 2001 09:07 To: chris@glovercc.clara.co.uk Subject: RE: [Alug] Linux server distro's
If the connector on your SCSI drive is a very long thin one
that looks like
a flat printer cable connector, it is probably an SCA
connector. Scan sell
SCA to 50/68pin SCSI adapters for approx. #15 plus VAT
You got it- I just d/l the manual from the IBM site (god bless the internet), and indeed it appears to be an 80 pin SCA-2 connector. Sounds just right. What's the URL for Scan ? That's an amazing price, especially if the cables support LVD (and apparently they don't all do that). I can't seem to find that kind of cable elsewhere-although I've only had a cursory look for 20 mins.
Thanks for the help! Ricardo --
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