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Dangers of using external power source with internal hard drive

Is it okay to connect a internal hard drive (IDE/SATA/SCSI) to an internal controller (e.g. on-board the motherboard) and supply the power via another power supply or an external unit like the one below: Does it matter if the external power supply…
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How do I associate linux scsi device names with disk devices?

I have a CentOS 4.x server running software raid. The server has two scsi disks in hot-swap trays. mdadm reports that the raid has failed, and so I would like to replace it. I examine /proc/mdstat, which tells me my two raid devices have…
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SCSI LSI Logic vs SAS

I read that LSI SAS offers better performance than traditional SCSI. While creating a virtual machine in Vmware, i have options to select either Bus Logic, LSI Logic or LSI Logic SAS. However, LSI logic is recommended by vmware inspite of the…
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Qlogic qla2xxx fibre channel HBA not displayed by targetcli

I'm experimenting with FC with a view to setting up a SAN but appear to be stuck at the first hurdle - I can't seem to get targetcli to give me the option of using my qla2xxx card as a target. I've not used FC before, and am attempting to use RHEL…
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What is the maximum SCSI LUN size?

What is the maximum size of single (i)SCSI LUN from perspective of SCSI protocol, what is the limit?
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Same SCSI drive appears multiple times on the controller list

I have an Adaptec AHA-2940UW SCSI hostadapter to which I connected a single Atlas 10K III drive (and nothing more). When my computer powers up it shows POST and then the option ROM from the Adaptec HostAdapter. Here I can see the Atlas drive listed…
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Cache of SCSI disk

I have a SCSI controller (HP Smart Array 642), using cciss driver on Linux, which is connected to several SCSI disks. I am trying to optimize the communication between these devices and came to the place, that I should check how full is the cache…
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My scanner isn't responding. It is connected to a SCSI interface using Windows XP

I have a Microtek ScanMaker 9600XL scanner. The best part about it is that it is 12x17 inches. Wowza! The worst part about it is that I've had it working at one point, with the same cable, same card, same computer, but have since re-installed…
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What in the world is SCSI?

Wikipedia has a page for it, but even then the technical definition seemed a bit over my head. Can anyone describe in easier terms for what this is?
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Can I Use a Parallel Cable With Two Male Ends As a SCSI Cable?

I have an old SCSI Zip Drive that I want to use with my old Macintosh Plus as a replacement for a HDD. The Zip Drive has two female DB-25 SCSI ports on it, one for connecting to the computer, and the other for connecting to another SCSI device. The…
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Using QEMU to emulate DOS with passthrough SCSI access?

I'd like to use QEMU to emulate an MS-DOS system that will run a very specific proprietary software that needs to talk to a SCSI tape device. I see that QEMU offers passthrough access to the host SCSI bus, and it looks like it can also emulate a…
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How to connect an old SCSI Tandberg QIC tape drive with current systems?

I currently have a ton of QIC-250MB tapes that I would like to read from (its been 30 years). I have a Tandberg TDC 3600 SCSI interfaced tape drive but I am lost how to connect it. In the past, with the computers then, they had a SCSI port where I…
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Clone a SCSI drive to an IDE drive?

Is it even possible to clone a SCSI hard drive to an IDE hard drive? If so what are some good free tools to do so?
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How to run windows command line when getting diskless boot error?

I am using diskless boot Windows 7 with iPXE. PC is intended to boot from vhdx, which i obtained by snapshotting sata(ahci) hard drive with sysiternals disk2vhd utility. Hard drive was previously in this machine, and it actually boots Windows 7…
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Accessing ironkey from command-line Linux system

So, this USB-key device (which registers as a CD-ROM / SCSI-device; weird, I know), which ships with a read-only partition (kinda?) including a Linux binary you need to execute to access to the data-partitions. Unfortunately, I can't get the binary…
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