On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:05:58AM -0600, Librado Pamintuan wrote:
> Problem solved.
> I got it working last Friday, after talking to LSI Logic support. The adapter 
> is shipped with the BIOS programmed as  RAID controller, even if I disable 
> the RAID function on the card, still the server and library detects it as a 
> RAID controller.  And what ADIC tech. support advised, the card/adapter that 
> controls the tape library should not be a RAID controller. So LSI Logic 
> advised me to download a BIOS firmware and re-load it on the adapter to 
> remove the RAID BIOS. After doing this BIOS update, even without configuring 
> the Adapter, it automatically detects the speed setting of 160Mbps required 
> by the tape library. I also loaded the driver which is available in RPM from 
> LSI Logic and just recompiled our current kernel to include this new 
> module/driver.
> All is well now and working good. There was a time, that when I was testing 
> the backups of Windows servers using the new card, the tape drive throughput 
> soared up to 250 to 300Mbps.
> 
> Lesson learned - be sure about the adapter you are about to purchase and 
> install.
> 
> thanks to all your feedback/input.
> Librado

gonna add something to this.

I've just been through the same scenario, but with RAID arrays , not tapes.
LSI mega raid had serious issues with seeing the arrays, after a quick word 
with LSI Tech
(they were FAST!) they rcommended a "standard SCSI Adapter" and hey presto!..
it worked..


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