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the imposable question

#1 Micropocalypse

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Posted 21 September 2001 - 11:03 PM

Odd request, I doubt anyone will have an answer to it, but has anyone tryed to put the hot plugable scsi aray form a old compaq proliant (486 type) on a adaptec aha-294x pci scsi controler. the spin up, then they spin up again. (I bet nobody can answer this one)

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Posted 22 September 2001 - 01:13 AM

I bow out in the honor that "I have no freaking clue!!!!"

-Chris

#3 Rick

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Posted 22 September 2001 - 10:42 AM

What is this...computer geek jeopardy? LOL JK

Rick

#4 Micropocalypse

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Posted 23 September 2001 - 06:47 PM

Ok it doesent have to be a adaptec balh balh blah, it just has to be a somewhat new scsi card, or any non compaq scsi card.
oh and ill take strange questions for $1000.

#5 gruffpuppy

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Posted 03 November 2001 - 02:42 PM

Not to bring up an old question but. . .are/were you using the SCSI card from the Compaq or just any old SCSI card?
A lot of the the SCSI adapters on Compaqs would have step one of the Raid controler burned into a chip on the card.

IBM also used custom EPROMS