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Does anybody know of a half-height SCSI card that stands a chance of
working with a recent version of SCO? (ie OSR-506 upwards, pref OSR6
or UW714)


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In article <7b5vg1db9i40i3agqt0sb9330oec3c88ut@4ax.com> Robin Grayson <robin@digisoft.uk.com> writes:
$Does anybody know of a half-height SCSI card that stands a chance of
$working with a recent version of SCO? (ie OSR-506 upwards, pref OSR6
$or UW714)

If I understand half-height correctly, Adaptec's low-profile cards
ought to fit the bill, and at least some of them work in 5.0.6
and/or 5.0.7.
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On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 03:45:37 GMT, stephen@stevedunn.ca (Stephen M.
Dunn) wrote:

| In article <7b5vg1db9i40i3agqt0sb9330oec3c88ut@4ax.com> Robin Grayson <robin@digisoft.uk.com> writes:
| $Does anybody know of a half-height SCSI card that stands a chance of
| $working with a recent version of SCO? (ie OSR-506 upwards, pref OSR6
| $or UW714)
|
| If I understand half-height correctly, Adaptec's low-profile cards
| ought to fit the bill, and at least some of them work in 5.0.6
| and/or 5.0.7.

What I'm not sure about on "half-height" cards is the spine that bolts
them into the case, I had a look at the low-profile adaptec cards, but
the part that fastens them into the case looks from the pictures the
same size as a full height card.

Thanks for the reply.
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Robin Grayson wrote:
>
> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 03:45:37 GMT, stephen@stevedunn.ca (Stephen M.
> Dunn) wrote:
>
> | In article <7b5vg1db9i40i3agqt0sb9330oec3c88ut@4ax.com> Robin Grayson <robin@digisoft.uk.com> writes:
> | $Does anybody know of a half-height SCSI card that stands a chance of
> | $working with a recent version of SCO? (ie OSR-506 upwards, pref OSR6
> | $or UW714)
> |
> | If I understand half-height correctly, Adaptec's low-profile cards
> | ought to fit the bill, and at least some of them work in 5.0.6
> | and/or 5.0.7.
>
> What I'm not sure about on "half-height" cards is the spine that bolts
> them into the case, I had a look at the low-profile adaptec cards, but
> the part that fastens them into the case looks from the pictures the
> same size as a full height card.

Yep, they're shipped with the full height bracket by default. The low profile
bracket is included in the box. Just remove the full height bracket and attach
the low profile bracket.

>
> Thanks for the reply.
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> | Robin Grayson - robin@digisoft.uk.com
> | Digisoft Ltd - http://www.digisoft.uk.com


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On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 03:15:22 GMT, "Steve M. Fabac, Jr."
<smfabac@att.net> wrote:

| Robin Grayson wrote:
| >
| > On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 03:45:37 GMT, stephen@stevedunn.ca (Stephen M.
| > Dunn) wrote:
| >
| > | In article <7b5vg1db9i40i3agqt0sb9330oec3c88ut@4ax.com> Robin Grayson <robin@digisoft.uk.com> writes:
| > | $Does anybody know of a half-height SCSI card that stands a chance of
| > | $working with a recent version of SCO? (ie OSR-506 upwards, pref OSR6
| > | $or UW714)
| > |
| > | If I understand half-height correctly, Adaptec's low-profile cards
| > | ought to fit the bill, and at least some of them work in 5.0.6
| > | and/or 5.0.7.
| >
| > What I'm not sure about on "half-height" cards is the spine that bolts
| > them into the case, I had a look at the low-profile adaptec cards, but
| > the part that fastens them into the case looks from the pictures the
| > same size as a full height card.
|
| Yep, they're shipped with the full height bracket by default. The low profile
| bracket is included in the box. Just remove the full height bracket and attach
| the low profile bracket.
|
| >
| > Thanks for the reply.
| > --
| > | Robin Grayson - robin@digisoft.uk.com
| > | Digisoft Ltd - http://www.digisoft.uk.com

That's great. Thanks to both of you for the information.

Regards,

Robin

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Robin Grayson schrieb:
> Does anybody know of a half-height SCSI card that stands a chance of
> working with a recent version of SCO? (ie OSR-506 upwards, pref OSR6
> or UW714)
>
>

LSI Logic 20160 has a low profile version:

http://www.lsilogic.com/products/scs...lsi20160l.html

and it's certified with osr an unixware


Andreas Kohl

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:52:00 +0200, Andreas Kohl <ak120@web.de> wrote:

| Robin Grayson schrieb:
| > Does anybody know of a half-height SCSI card that stands a chance of
| > working with a recent version of SCO? (ie OSR-506 upwards, pref OSR6
| > or UW714)
| >
| >
|
| LSI Logic 20160 has a low profile version:
|
| http://www.lsilogic.com/products/scs...lsi20160l.html
|
| and it's certified with osr an unixware
|

That's good news.

I spoke with Adaptec Support (UK) and asked them for a low-profile
card that was supported in OSR506/507/600 and UW714, their response
was:

"
The Adaptec SCSI RAID 2130SLP will support SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 &
5.0.7 and Windows Server 2003.

It will not support SCO OpenServer 6 or SCO UnixWare 7.1.4.

It will support SCO Unixware 7.1.3.

I hope this is of help.
"

When I pushed them further to see about anything for OSR6/UW714, their
response was:

"
There are drivers being developed all the time but I’m afraid there is
no timeframe I can give you at the moment
"

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Robin Grayson wrote:

> I spoke with Adaptec Support (UK) and asked them for a low-profile
> card that was supported in OSR506/507/600 and UW714, their response
> was:
>
> "
> The Adaptec SCSI RAID 2130SLP will support SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 &
> 5.0.7 and Windows Server 2003.
>
> It will not support SCO OpenServer 6 or SCO UnixWare 7.1.4.
>
> It will support SCO Unixware 7.1.3.
>
> I hope this is of help.
> "
>
> When I pushed them further to see about anything for OSR6/UW714, their
> response was:
>
> "
> There are drivers being developed all the time but I’m afraid there is
> no timeframe I can give you at the moment
> "

An HBA driver for UW713 will almost certainly be fine on 714. What the
Adaptec Support person is saying is "The document I'm looking at doesn't
say 714 is supported, so I have no information about whether it will
work, but it definitely isn't formally supported".

In made-up numbers, this driver has a 95% chance of working perfectly on
UW714 and at least 85% chance on OSR6 (90% chance the driver will work;
plus a small additional risk that it may include user-level RAID
management utilities and those may have problems).

>Bela<

On 1 Sep 2005 03:35:08 -0400, Bela Lubkin <filbo@armory.com> wrote:

| In made-up numbers, this driver has a 95% chance of working perfectly on
| UW714 and at least 85% chance on OSR6 (90% chance the driver will work;
| plus a small additional risk that it may include user-level RAID
| management utilities and those may have problems).

Well I think those odds are good enough for me ... I didn't want RAID,
the Adaptec support person said "just disable that on the card"

To be honest this card would be a sledge-hammer to crack a nut; I just
want a "simple" host adapter with external scsi so I can plug in an
external tape drive and do a super-tar backup of this machine.

It's not a critical machine by any means, backups are done of
source-code and data are done by backing up to an image file and then
ftp'ing that onto another box - whilst not ideal, it's ok for what's
on this machine.

However going forward, I want to install OSR6 and put in place a
backup device.


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Robin Grayson wrote:

> On 1 Sep 2005 03:35:08 -0400, Bela Lubkin <filbo@armory.com> wrote:
>
> | In made-up numbers, this driver has a 95% chance of working perfectly on
> | UW714 and at least 85% chance on OSR6 (90% chance the driver will work;
> | plus a small additional risk that it may include user-level RAID
> | management utilities and those may have problems).
>
> Well I think those odds are good enough for me ... I didn't want RAID,
> the Adaptec support person said "just disable that on the card"
>
> To be honest this card would be a sledge-hammer to crack a nut; I just
> want a "simple" host adapter with external scsi so I can plug in an
> external tape drive and do a super-tar backup of this machine.
>
> It's not a critical machine by any means, backups are done of
> source-code and data are done by backing up to an image file and then
> ftp'ing that onto another box - whilst not ideal, it's ok for what's
> on this machine.
>
> However going forward, I want to install OSR6 and put in place a
> backup device.

I would be a bit more worried about the idea of using a RAID card for a
tape drive, than the driver-vs-OS-version issues. RAID cards and
drivers have a poor track record with respect to SCSI devices other than
hard disks. I have no specific information about the Adaptec you
mentioned, just a general sense of unease...

Going backwards in the technology timeline, you might try an Adaptec
29160LP. That's an Ultra160-to-PCI (not PCI-X) non-RAID card.
amazon.com has them for $250; several vendors on pricewatch.com have it
for <$120. A 29160 has 100% chance of being driver-compatible, and
since it isn't a RAID card, I expect it to support a tape drive
perfectly.

>Bela<