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X86 Hardware support

Thu Sep 09, 2010 4:04 pm

The x86 version only supports IDE drives ... I have some hardware that has SCSI drives. Would it be possible to add SCSI support to the x86 version ?
 
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Re: X86 Hardware support

Thu Sep 09, 2010 4:09 pm

 
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Re: X86 Hardware support

Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:39 am

RouterOS5 already supports SCSI

3w-9xxx (3Ware)
arcmsr (Areca)
megaraid (for Dell servers)
 
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Re: X86 Hardware support

Fri Sep 10, 2010 12:53 pm

It dose not support IBM XEON server or workstation SCSI hardware
 
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Re: X86 Hardware support

Fri Sep 10, 2010 12:57 pm

find out what SCSI controller this server uses.
 
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Re: X86 Hardware support

Fri Sep 10, 2010 1:02 pm

LSI Logic Ultra320 for the workstation, I will have to boot a server to say exactly witch one but I know most of the onboard SCSI is LSI Logic

P.S. VMWare SCSI dose not work neither
 
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Re: X86 Hardware support

Fri Sep 10, 2010 1:03 pm

well, as you can see, currently not supported
 
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Re: X86 Hardware support

Fri Sep 10, 2010 1:26 pm

Simple workaround ESXi from VMWare :wink: