selecting a SCSI PCI-E card

[Dan Langille]

Look here!

mpt0: <LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 Adapter> port 0x8000-0x80ff mem
0xfb220000-0xfb23ffff,0xfb200000-0xfb21ffff irq 19 at device 8.0 on pci15
mpt0: MPI Version=1.2.14.0

It just been installed in the server.  Hopefully I can get the tape
library. attached tomorrow.

Photos here: https://twitter.com/DLangille/status/625814151223451648

At least they've both LDV/SE.

David: Thank you.  :)


On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 10:57 PM, David Gwynne <loki at animata.net> wrote:

> I'd have a look for LSI20320IE cards on eBay.
>
> Cheers,
> dlg
> On 4 Jul 2015 06:33, "Dan Langille" <dan at langille.org> wrote:
>
>> I have an external tape library and I'm considering moving it to a new
>> system, which does not have a PCI slot.
>>
>> The existing card is a Symbios Ultra2 32-bit PCI SCSI Adapter SYM8951U
>> and dmsg output can be found here:
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>>   https://dan.langille.org/2013/08/18/knew/
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>> I'm pretty sure the card is LVD/SE SCSI based on the terminator (External
>> U320 VHDCI68M LVD/SE SCSI Terminator).
>>
>> Thew new system has not been built yet, but one motherboard I like does
>> not have a PCI slot, only PCI-E 3.0 and PCI-E 2.0.
>>
>> Do you know of a card supported by FreeBSD which meets the above needs? I
>> was looking on eBay and was failing.
>>
>> I suppose I could solve the problem by moving away from DLT-8000 to
>> LTO-4; if you have a system you want to get rid of...
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> —
>> Dan Langille
>> http://langille.org/
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