SCSI Hard Drives

[hardwarenewbie35]

I got a Seagate SCSI Hard Drive as a present and I need a SCSI controller for it. I want a good controller with affordable prices.

Can anyone link me to a controller that I should get? I wanna use this drive ASAP.

 

[InlineFive]

Depends, what kind of motherboard do you have? Hope you have PCI-X or you are going to be dissapointed!

-Por

 

[mechBgon]

Here's an LSI Logic Ultra160 controller and you also need an LVD cable and terminator. I'm assuming it's an LVD 68-pin drive (Ultra2, Ultra160 or Ultra320).

The LSI Logic controller is U160 but that'll be fine for an Ultra320 drive too. It happens to be 64-bit PCI too, so don't be shocked when half its contacts hang out in empty air. Works fine anyway.

 

[Wolfsraider]

what model number is the drive?

 

[hardwarenewbie35]

The drive is a Seagate Cheetah 320Ultra.

 

[hardwarenewbie35]

I have both a 865PE and 875P chipset motherboards. And the drive is a 68-pin drive. Is the SCSI controller that is linked above will work fine? Please help.


What is a PCI-X motherboard?

 

[Sunner]

Probably a Ceetah 15K.3 then, nice drive

PCI-X is a 64 bit PCI slot, running at a max of 133 MHz rather than 33 that' the max provided by "mainstream" 33 MHz / 32 bit slots.
This gives you 1 GB/Sec of bandwidth, rather than the 133 MB/Sec you'll get out of a 33/32 slot, such as the ones on an i876/i865 motherboard.

 

[hardwarenewbie35]

Yep, I got the Ceetah 15K.3 drive. It will be nice if I can get the right controller and start messing with it.


I guess I will do fine on 865PE/875P motherboards then.


Is the LSI Logic Ultra160 controller right or should I be looking at something else?] Please lemme know. Thx.

 

[mechBgon]

The LSI Logic U160 is what I run my Cheetah 15k.3 on. The other card in that shot is my Adaptec 19160, which performs the same and costs much more. Go for it Congrats on the new drive, you'll like it!

Edit: by the way, consult your motherboard's owners' manual and try to pick a PCI slot that doesn't share its IRQ, or at least that doesn't share its IRQ with another high-traffic item. If you need help, LMK what mobo you've got and I'll track down the manual and help with that. Also remember that to a motherboard, all the PCI-based disk controllers are "SCSI" and sometimes you can't get it to boot from the drive you want it to, when using a soldered-down PCI controller that's built onto the mobo itself (SATA, for example, or a Promise IDE RAID controller).