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Hi, Recently I tried to do a system checkup for my storage devices using crystaldiskinfo. It kept showing me 'Drives not found' https://puu.sh/HCOs9/f54df8d2fb.png After checking my drives in device manager I found out that they were SCSI drives. https://puu.sh/HCOAX/6c2fea9ac3.png I don't even know when they got changed. All I remember a while ago I had installed AMDs storeMI software. I am not sure whether it affected my drives. I checked my BIOS settings and the SATA is set to AHCI mode. Both my nvme ssd(XPG sx8200 pro) and WD 1tb 7200rpm drive show as SCSI. Should I be worried? I would like to change it back to how they were originally as I would like to use crystaldiskinfo. ADATAs own software too throws an error for no drive detection. I use an msi b550 board with Ryzen 5600x if any of that matters.

So just picked up a DL380 G3 and a G4 for super cheap, with no drives. They both take SCSI drives which i've never even heard of until today. Anyone know where to get any(UK)? Preferably cheap.

my friend is going to send me and has already sent another friend a dell poweredge t420. the friend that has already gotten it is having trouble with getting it to run with a gpu (gtx 750). when he got it it had a pair of scsi cards in the pcie slots and the computer would not run without them until he updated the bios. when he put the gpu in it the pc wouldn't post to the monitor using hdmi, he plugged in the VGA and it showed that it crashed. he's running Linux if that's important (i will be to). please help

Hey all, I recently found an old server while doing the ol' dumpster dive, and along with it a bunch of old cool stuff. Among those things was a Compaq DLT tape drive, some scsi hard drives, and a scsi controller (and also raid i think) card. Because of the age of my motherboard I was able to verify that the card still works, along with it's custom bios chip that is onboard. The thing is though, I haven't been able to find windows 10 drivers for this card. Does anyone know where I can find at least somewhat current drivers for an Adaptec AHA-2940AU scsi card? all drivers that I've found are pre-windows 7. And if not, would a scsi to usb adapter work with a Compaq 3300 DLT Tape Drive? Thanks in advance!

Hey guys, I just got hold of a rackmount tape drive for dirt cheap but I'm strugling to identify some ports. I know that they are scsi ports (it's LTO-4 so fairly old now) but I just wanted a second opinion. I think that the bigger port is a HD68 - SCSI 3 connection and maybe the smaller is a HD50? Can I get an adapter to connect the two? Here's the cable for the PCIE card (the smaller of the two connectors) Thanks p.s. not sure if it matters but I'm in the UK

Hey, yall. First post on here. So basically I found this USB. Its a Vision Tek 128 GB USB 3.0 SSD USB(Yes the actual name in Disk Management). As the name, (and this link of the exact USB https://www.legitreviews.com/visiontek-120gb-usb-pocket-ssd-drive-review_157991) states, it's a pretty fast and high storage USB. So, I wanted to make it a portable and bootable Windows 10 drive. So after formatting, and getting the ISO for the USB. I decided that I would use Rufus to mount the ISO to the drive. However, RUFUS does not detect the drive. I tried every online solution from updating the drivers and re-plugging it in, but it wouldn't work. I don't know why this is happening, because Windows detects it and I can move and use files on the USB. My only suspicion is that Disk Management it says that it is a SCSI USB, which is apparently server gear, but I don't know much about it. If someone could help me out, that would be great. I will provide screenshots if necessary. Thanks!

Hello I bought 3 SAS HDD, which seem to be used in NetApp System, and my Proliant DL380 Gen10 with Smart Array P408i-a SR don't recognize properly because of their sector size is 520 byte. Then I've tried using following command to format as a 512 byte sector size with Ubuntu 19.04 on USB. > sg_format --format --size=512 /dev/“drive dir” However it says "illegal sense key, apart from invalid opcode" and cannot format. Please help me with resolving this. Hardware details follows HPE Proliant DL380 Gen10 HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR, 2GB Cache with FBWC HDEBJ12NAA51(netapp's part #) / Toshiba AL14SEB09EQ, 10K SAS 12Gb 900GB

What would be required to connect a 68 pin LVD SCSI LTO to a modern system? Is it even possible? I have some IDE based workstations... but I would prefer to do it some other way just for ease of use. I know I can do IDE to SCSI 68 LVD. This is a for fun project but if its not possible Ill just use a scsi to IDE converter and set up one of them as a back up server.

Probably a little too specific for most folks but I've hit a dead end. Hi folks, I'm an IT tech and we work next door to a commercial printers who are running into more and more problems with their ageing HP Proliant ML150 G2 server running Server 2003 with software called Trueflow V4. This software was made by a company called Screen who stopped support for this software many years ago and according to them, was configured to the specific server and plate printing machine. This is the backbone of the business and when there is an issue with the server, they can't print. This has been happening more and more times of recent. They want some sort of backup of the system so if this dies, we can fire up a secondary machine and operate uninterrupted with that. We bought a second identical system which proceeded to blow the PSU and mobo upon connecting it to power for the first time. The hard drive is connected via a RAID card and is using a U320 SCSI connector with only one drive. My first plan was to clone the drive onto a spare we purchased, but neither drive is picked up with any cloning software I can load up. This is one of the priorities, just to keep the data safe in case of HDD failure. The company has all the installation disks and I'd love to start afresh on a newer machine with something like Windows 7, install the software onto that, but it appears it is only compatible with Server 2003. A new up to date set up with the latest software and hardware has been quoted at over £20,000 which is not feasible in their current position as a business. Anyone with printing knowledge would be greatly appreciative of your help!

I'm probably going to get crucified for this, but i'm trying to modernize an old Panasonic ToughBook (CF-29) and i'm having trouble sourcing an adapter for an SSD. Anytime i look into what adapter i need, all i can find is SCSI Clearly not what i have. If it's not full size Scuzzy (god bless sata), what do i need?

Hi. I have a question about host bus adapter. What types of code run on these cards?

Hi all. I have recently watched the Techquickie video about SATA vs. SAS. I know that having things like PATA and SATA stopped the need to use SCSI. Why didn't the developers of SAS just develop it for SATA so anyone can use it. C'mon SCSI developers, SCSI is like way too old, at least by today's standards. Develop something like SAS but for SATA.

Hey guys, I've just gotten a very old custom build desktop from my dad which no longer works anymore, and I am wondering is there is anyway I can convert a SCSI HDD to a SATA or IDE interface? I've been looking around, but I just cannot find anything. I want to get all the data off them, but because they are SCSI (80 pin I think, never worked with SCSI before) I cannot use them unless I can find an adapter of some sort. This has been annoying me for months now because the desktop has just been sitting in my loft for the past 2 years, and the time has come where I wanna do something about it. It does have this weird adapter with them, and some sort of PCI adapter but I just don't know how to use them. The desktop itself is busted. the PSU is blown and I fear the motherboard is the same. I REALLY hope you guys can give me any type of suggestion to how I can get these HDDs up and running again just so I can get some data recovery on those bad boys. Many thanks - PlymouthJoseph

Ok, so this really isn't a new build more of a plea for help in setting one up. I'm modifying a pre-built enterprise-class system. There is this local print buisness that opened up down the street from me that is run by some really nice people. Problem is they don't have a lot of money starting up and are using hand-me-down equipment (i.e. old Dell Dimension desktops with Pentium 4s.) I've replaced most of their computers with slim pcs that were going to be thrown out at work, but one of their towers is used to control an old SCSI large-format printer. I found a tower that will support Win7 and has card slots so I can add SCSI to it, but it only takes low-profile cards. I have a full-height SCSI controller kicking around in my box-O'-outdated tech, but it is not low-profile in any way, shape or form. So here's the thing, SCSI controllers are expensive. To buy a brand new one would run me like ~$150, and since I'm doing this all pro-bono I'd like to avoid that, and my community Freecycle group doesn't seem to have a whole lot of techs in it, or else I would try there. Does anyone have a low-profile ULTRA320 controller they would be willing to give to me (of course I'd pay for shipping) either out of the kindness of your heart or for trade? Or does anyone know a good tech-trading site out there for swaps and such? TL;DR: Need a low-profile Ultra320 SCSI controller for free or very cheap, it's for a good cause.

An Introduction to Storage Networking SAN, NAS, networking, oh my! I see lots of talk about NAS setups in the storage section. Much of it revolves around increasing storage performance through caching and complex RAID arrays, but there's less discussion about the networks they're connected to. If your storage is high-performance, then your network is usually the next bottleneck in the system, especially when multiple users are connected to a NAS. There are a couple of concepts that I'll mention, starting with the idea of a Storage Area Network: A SAN is a network which provides access to storage. Traditional implementations in the enterprise environment will use a dedicated network, and the storage is consolidated into a SAN appliance. Depending on the implementation, a SAN might be sharing individual hard drives, or volumes spread across multiple hard drives. The network also doesn't matter, but requires hardware and software support. Two of the more common ones are Fibre Channel and iSCSI. Fibre Channel uses fibre cables which provide lower latency than iSCSI, which is typically run over copper cabling using SFP+ or RJ45 connectors. In addition, data is transferred in block form, rather than in file form, and the storage devices appear as local devices. Can you tell which of these are physical hard drives and which ones are SAN storage? [spoiler=Answer] Here, the Media drive and the VRAID drive are iSCSI targets. These ones are coming from two separate SAN appliances in our lab. This allows for all sorts of neat functionality. Firstly, it allows you to perform Windows Backups to the machine over a network without owning Windows 7 Professional. It also allows you to install programs to remote storage. That remote device, if it's a part of a RAID-protected volume, will be much safer than a single hard drive. Also, since the data is stored in block form, you can format an iSCSI target with whatever format your file system can support. Next is networking protocols. I won't talk about Fibre Channel since setting up an infrastructure is very expensive and specialized, and really only useful for the enterprise environment. However, I will discuss iSCSI, which has risen in popularity over the years and is usable in consumer environments. SCSI is an interface that allows one to directly attach storage appliances to servers, where they appear like local storage. iSCSI takes it one step further, making the protocol talk over a network rather than through a dedicated cable. You can use iSCSI on almost any computer in existence. If you're running Windows 2000 or later, your OS comes with an iSCSI initiator by default. Linux has an iSCSI driver, FreeBSD has iscontrol, and you can get one for OS X (doesn't come with one by default). 4) Another issue with having data served over iSCSI is that, should someone else do something intensive, your performance can also be affected. If your parents start doing a backup to the SAN, then you will be affected, which is annoying when trying to play a game. This could manifest as long loading times, or you could lag in-game because your program needed to access files on your storage. Either way, it's an inconvenience to you. Solution: This is the most common problem with iSCSI, and the solution is to have this type of traffic routed over a dedicated network so that when your parents go to back up their computer, it will be over a different network connection, and you won't have as many issues. If your storage isn't adequate, you can still be affected. This feature isn't really doable with a prebuilt system, but most enterprise environments will use equipment that can do it. You can also build one yourself, using multiple network cards to split traffic between a public network and your SAN network. Now let's talk about NAS. A NAS is similar to appliances connected to a SAN, but instead of appearing as a local device it appears as a networked device. It's what you see when you map a network drive in Windows. The advantage of this is that a data store can be shared with multiple users, rather than. In addition, they're usually attached to an existing network of computers (sometimes called the 'client' network), rather than on a separate network.

Hi guys, [insert title] I got this thing from my work place, and they apparently couldn't ever get it to work. Though I don't know how hard they actually tried. There were 3 HDD's in it which are these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-D9419A-SEAGATE-CHEETAH-ST336706LC-36GB-36-4GB-SCSI-SERVER-HARD-DRIVE-U160-HDD-/251226278970?pt=US_Internal_Hard_Disk_Drives&hash=item3a7e40cc3a It's this thing: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SUN-MICROSYSTEMS-5403760-01-STORAGE-ARRAY-ENCLOSURE-ASM-12X-DELOR-REV-52-/150809542993 So yeah. I have no way to test this thing out as I lack a SCSI connector for the back. How would I go about doing this and it actually working (if it actually works)?

[NOTICE] Pictures of each step are in this link: http://imgur.com/a/elpvH Hello everyone, I have acquired a Dell PowerEdge 2950. Image Here: http://content.hwigroup.net/images/products/xl/002294/2/dell_poweredge_2950.jpg I was originally planning on building a gaming computer out of this, by adding parts, but upon the realization it couldn't be done i changed my plan. I decided on building a gaming PC with the valuable parts remaining. I Decided that the most valuable pieces of this were the HDDs. There 6 are 15,000 RPM HDDs(YES, FIFTEEN THOUSAND RPM). I plan on attempting to add the HDDs in raid(They were in Raid in the server) to this motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131874 The problem is that the HDDs are not SATA, they are SAS (Serial Attached SCSI). This motherboard only has SATA raid, so I decided to remove the SAS raid card from the Server. So, I decided i could remove the board on which the SAS drives mount. (In the server, they were hot swap-able) I also removed the SAS RAID controller. I figure that I will need a mother board where I can more than one 24 pin connectors. The 20 pin connector on the board which the drives will mount to will connect to my motherboard. The two other cables attach to the RAID controller. I then planned on attaching the HDDs to the board. I would also attach the board to the motherboard. I was just wondering if my plan was at all possible. If you have any suggestions of alternate motherboards (They must still be able to be fully functional motherboards for gaming) that would help. Or a way of having multiple 24 pin connector on this motherboard.. Also any advice on the PCI 8x vs PCI 16x connector would be nice. Would either of those work with my current motherboard, or any other you can find? I'm not sure if that is the size or the type or PCI. Over all would this even work at all? Would having an existing SATA raid controller built in on the motherboard cause any problems? Does my setup work? Will the SAS RAID controller work outside of its server? Could I get power from the power supply and not the motherboard with the 20 pin connector? Thanks in Advance, Matt