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| Thread ID: 108989 | 2010-04-19 11:26:00 | SCSI Confusion! | WarNox (8772) | Press F1 |
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| 878200 | 2010-04-19 11:26:00 | Hey! I'm wondering which SCSI Hard Drive fits into a Dell Poweredge 2850. Is it the 68-pin or the 80-pin? I know its an Ultra320 but not sure which pin number. I think its 80, because looking at the inside connectors there is only 1 plug. The reason I'm confused is that an 80-pin indicates hot swappable but this server only supports hot swappable in a RAID configuration. So if I plug in one 80-pin U320 hard drive, will it still work without a RAID configuration set up? (ie. without a raid card etc...) Thanks anyone :) |
WarNox (8772) | ||
| 878201 | 2010-04-19 12:31:00 | I have no idea what it uses, maybe take a look at some photographs of different SCSI plugs in Google and work out which one yours is? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 878202 | 2010-04-19 15:15:00 | If its only got one plug its SCA (en.wikipedia.org) and 80 pin. The drive should "just work" but you never can tell with server hardware... It may require some configuration |
Dannz (1668) | ||
| 878203 | 2010-04-19 21:16:00 | Yea, I don't want to get something that won't work :) I'll get a normal 80pin and see how that goes. Should be able to find out cheap somewhere. |
WarNox (8772) | ||
| 878204 | 2010-04-19 21:30:00 | It's most likely SCA, I'm pretty sure the 2850s use a scsi backplane for connecting the drives. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 878205 | 2010-04-19 22:09:00 | Yea I managed to find the manuals on Dells website. There is a backplane and I'm just hoping everything is ok with the RAID setup :) | WarNox (8772) | ||
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