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Old 10-08-2011
SCSI--Moving from PCI-X to PCIe

PCI-X was popular years ago, now it's not. Today's motherboards have PCIe slots, not PCI-X slots. I'm accustomed to using Adaptec, but I believe they've been bought out by ATTO Technology. Now ATTO has a product called PCI UL50 Dual Channel VHDCI Ultra320 SCSI PCIe card. So: does the SCO UNIX OpenServer 5.0.7 Adaptec Ultra320 driver work with this card? Or is another driver needed?
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Old 10-08-2011
Adaptec, not SCO provide the drivers, you will have to ask them.
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Old 10-09-2011
ATTO/Adaptec says that they have drivers for Linux--they don't specifically mention SCO. I'm hoping that the Adaptec Ultra320 driver will work...
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Old 10-09-2011
First of all, SCO UNIX OpenServer is not Linux. I would be very surprised if the existing SCO Adaptec Ultra32 driver worked with a newer board such as the UL50 Dual Channel VHDCI Ultra320 SCSI PCIe card.

Off the wall but maybe you should consider a PCI-X to PCIe adoptor and continue to use your existing SCSI card.
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Old 10-09-2011
I have used these with good results.
MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2
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Old 10-09-2011
I and my clients have numerous external Ultra320 SCSI drives--which are working fine. But new motherboards don't have the PCI-X slot anymore. I've contacted Adaptec directly about this situation, but have yet to receive a reply; they seem to be a much smaller company now.
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Old 10-09-2011
According to the SCO hardware list, there are no PCIExpress cards that support parallel SCSI disk drives, for release 5.0.7 or 6.0.0
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