PERC 4 - Media Changer on second channel

Mark Watts m.watts at eris.qinetiq.com
Thu Nov 2 07:57:20 CST 2006


> Hi,
>
> We have a PE-850 with a MegaRAID SCSI Raid Controler (Perc 4/SC 4/DC
> 4e/DC) :
>
> 0000:02:0e.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID
> (rev 07)
>
> The first channel is use for RAID.
>
> We want to use the seconde channel for a media changer. It's an out of
> box device.
>
> Is these a probleme to use the second channel for our device ?

I don't believe using a RAID controller for anything other than disks is 
supported.
You'd need a regular SCSI card for that (AHA-39160 or similar)

Mark.

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