CentOS - Nov 2009 - Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?

Hi,

for a specific application we need a low-profile SCSI card (PCI) with 
external 50pin connector.  I thought about getting an "Adaptec SCSI Card 
2930LP".  However I was not able to find any usable information about 
wether this card is supported by Linux/CentOS 5.x or not.  Does anyone 
have this card working with a CentOS 5.x machine?

Alternatively: Are there any linux-supported low-profile PCI SCSI cards 
with 50pin connector which are supported by CentOS 5.x and which you can 
recommend?

Thanks in advance

    frank

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At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:43:28 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at
centos.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> for a specific application we need a low-profile SCSI card (PCI) with 
> external 50pin connector.  I thought about getting an "Adaptec SCSI
Card
> 2930LP".  However I was not able to find any usable information about 
> wether this card is supported by Linux/CentOS 5.x or not.  Does anyone 
> have this card working with a CentOS 5.x machine?
ALL Adaptec SCSI Cards (except for a few bleeding edge 64-bit PCI cards)
are supported, out-of-the-box using stock kernels on all versions of
CentOS (3.x, 4.x, and 5.x):

On my CentOS 4.8 box:

sauron.deepsoft.com% strings
/lib/modules/2.6.9-89.0.16.EL/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.ko |grep 2930
Adaptec 2930CU SCSI adapter
Adaptec 2930C Ultra SCSI adapter (VAR)
Adaptec 2930 Ultra SCSI adapter
Adaptec 2930 Ultra2 SCSI adapter

And in a CentOS 5.2 install:

sauron.deepsoft.com% strings
/CentOS52/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.ko |
grep 2930
Adaptec 2930CU SCSI adapter
Adaptec 2930C Ultra SCSI adapter (VAR)
Adaptec 2930 Ultra SCSI adapter
Adaptec 2930 Ultra2 SCSI adapter

It is supported. 
> 
> Alternatively: Are there any linux-supported low-profile PCI SCSI cards 
> with 50pin connector which are supported by CentOS 5.x and which you can 
> recommend?
Go with the Adaptec card.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
>     frank
> 
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----- "Rainer Duffner" <rainer at ultra-secure.de>
wrote:
> Except that nowadays, some cheap desktop-motherboards may not know
> how
> to enable booting from such a card.
> It's years since I used SCSI-drives for desktop-use - and then it was
> a
> workstation-class Dual-Xeon board, Socket 604.
> So I can't say if this is still true today - but I've read that
> people
> have problems like that.
> 
> Rainer

I've actually found that even in some systems that can boot from addon cards
properly, there are still some cards that are not "bootable". In fact,
I have a 29160LP that would not show up as a bootable option in a half dozen
servers I tried. This includes anywhere from custom built boxes to nice upper
end Dell units. YMMV...

Tim Nelson
Systems/Network Support
Rockbochs Inc.
(218)727-4332 x105