SCSI Card and Backup.

[ScoobyDoobyDoo]

Hi.

Has anyone installed a SCSI Card and Dat Backup on SCO 5.0.7 (there must be loads of you) - my Dell PE 400SC came with a built in backup unit which i had to disconnect to get SCO Openserver 5.0.7 installed on it - it double panic'd the kernel.

All I need is
A) Which SCSI Card you use (ie. Model Number).
B) Which Dat Backup Unit you have (Preferably Internal) and Model Number.

Thanks

 

[PHV]

I think you must download either the ad160, ad320 or lsil drivers from the sco site.

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[ScoobyDoobyDoo]

Thanks for the Reply - however I don't need the drivers.
I just want to know what to BUY, I will remove the original Dell IDE Backup rubbish and install a SCSI Card and Dat Drive - i'm not getting any help from places like Watford Electronics so my thought was to find someone who has already got a SCSI backup of some description installed in 5.0.7 and simply BUY the same hardware ...

Thanks in Advance ...

 

[PHV]

PE400SC
The SC stands for SCSI, so you already have a SCSI adapter.
I don't have any problem with the HP or Seagate SCSI DATs.
If you prefer a dedicated SCSI adapter, no problem with any Adaptec card (eg 29160).

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[ScoobyDoobyDoo]

Yes Interesting thought - but there is definately no SCSI Card in there, on the original stuff I have from Dell this is the problem part ....
PV100T 20/40Gb IDE INT TBU (PE400SC)

Other than that it's a basic P4 2.4 Ghz PC with 80 Gb IDE Disk, IDE CD, 512 Mb Ram, Once the PV100T has been disconnected I can install SCO Unix 5.0.7 perfectly so now all I need a backup, the network card is also working fine.

However, I normally go for Adaptec SCSI Cards but there are so many combinations of cards / Dat drives that no-one seems to be able to help and you mention SCO and thats the end of the conversation, how do other people back up?

Regards

 

[cdlvj]

>>If you prefer a dedicated SCSI adapter, no problem with >>any Adaptec card (eg 29160).

Be wary here, as I think that 29160 is for windoze only, and no drivers are available. Not sure which model, but one of them will not work. Before you buy check the adaptec site for drivers, or even SCO.com should have them.

 

[cdlvj]

It is the 19160 model.
Any SCSI tape unit will work, I have had almost zilch problems with SCO and SCSI interface over the years.

The only problem that I ever had was earlier this year with the 29160 and a old Dat Tape Unit (circa 93/94). The card would not recognize the Unit at all. I had to put in a old card so I could build and restore the system. The new cards have all the compatible interfaces, and should be backward compatible.

 

[ScoobyDoobyDoo]

Thanks - Any chance of giving me some model numbers for both the SCSI card and a backup tape drive? then I can order exactly the right thing and not have loads of hassle which is what happened between Dell and SCO who said the Internal IDE thing would work on a SCO but it don't.

Regards

 

[cdlvj]

On the IDE, have you tried the slave/master, primary/secondary swapping around?

Did you find an drivers on the SCO site?
Check any patches?

There is an entry level 2940 series, the 29160, 39160, all depends on how much $, and plans for the future.

Any Sony tape unit should be ok, Money wise from $259 on to $5000.

Having both IDE and SCSI could cause some problems, although UNIX is pretty good about this. The system board/bios will have to have the ability to select boot device.

 

[ScoobyDoobyDoo]

Lol i did better than that - I actually got SCO themselves to try it - the came and took the machine off of me and even they couldn't get it to work, but at least they tried.

Not impressed at all with Dell who then refused to take the machine back even though they sold it to us on the promise it would work with SCO - would never buy another Dell for as long as I live and I have stopped recommending Dell to people.

Regards

 

[cdlvj]

Same here, Never have bought a Dell, HP, Compaq, or Gateway. One of the places I worked had SCO on Wyse 386 machines and we replaced all of them with generic white boxes, performance was superior with no problems at all.

Did not pay any attention to the SCO list of approved hardware, always used SCSI devices.

 

[cdlvj]

Scooby, you may try filing a complaint with your state's AG office. Works pretty good here in Texas, and many complaints get resolved successfully.

 

[ScoobyDoobyDoo]

Yeah maybe Dell are better in the States - trouble is I live in the UK - but thanks for the advice anyway, funny, I used to work on Wyse 386 computers too

In the old days there wasn't 8 thousand variaties of SCSI and/or different tape drives like there are today ...

 

[cdlvj]

in early 90's the company had 16 wyse servers with SCO Xenix and networked with Coconut. max memory 16K, and small scsi hard disks. They cost a fortune.

Replaced them with SCO 3.2, and then with Openserver 5. Took some of the old WYSE and made them print servers, messaging servers. Was able to move to TCP, as SCO provided that module for Xenix.

 

[ScoobyDoobyDoo]

Aaaah SCO Xenix - my favourite - I used to compile in that up until about 5 years ago when I was forced to move to SCO Unix, but Xenix could create executables for SCO Xenix, SCO Unix and SCO Unixware in 1 executable (providing u did no op.sys stuff of course).

 

[cdlvj]

Scooby,

Are you sure that all the Service Packs are on the system, They just released SP3, and there are a bunch at the sco website.