Re: will SCO 5.0.6 Enterprise work on SATA

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:18:02 GMT, Marc Champagne
<garbage.bin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Some of our old server boxes are, well, old, we need to migrate to more
upstream hardware, I've read bits a pieces via google, but would like
some more feetback.

We need to stick to 5.0.6. as that solutions works very well in our case.

SCO_SV 3.2v5.0.6 kernelID 2000-07-27

We are looking at getting a motherboard that supports RAID mirroring, 2
160gb SATA drives, SATA possibly in legacy mode, cdrom would be IDE.

I've been out of the loop a couple of years, If more information is needed
I will gladly supply it.

Much Appreciated.
Marc

First, there are ***NO*** motherboards whose embedded chipsets' RAID
option supports OpenServer.

If you need RAID support, the best way to get there is with a card
such as Adaptec's 2410SA ("aacraid") or LSI's MegaRAID 150-4
("amird"). Both these cards use mature stacks designed around their
SCSI counterparts. I think the LSI card has more fans among this
group's readers, due to its "megamgr" software.

The rest of my notes presume that you don't want to shell out the $$
for a RAID card:

You will do well with 1 or 2 SATA disks on most of the Intel chipsets'
embedded controllers. ViA, nVidia, ATI, and SiS will not take you
there as easily; SiliconImage chips won't even pretend to.

There is no native SATA support in 5.0.6, so you must poke around in
the CMOS and set your SATA controller to "legacy" or "combined" mode.

Load the "wd506" BTLD when you do your install.

If you use disks larger than 120GB, You Will Lose.
(native "wd" and "wd506" do not support 48-bit LBA.)

--Alan DePietro
ald (at) senecadata dot com
Systems Engineer
Seneca Data Distributors

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