[KLUG Hardware] Intel Server RAID U2-1 (SRCU21) -- Anyone seen these???

[Bryan J. Smith]

I found a vendor that has some cheap ($44!), single-channel SCSI RAID
cards (used/pulls):
http://www.package2you.com/cgi-bin/miva.cgi?Merchant2/merchant.mv+Screen=PROD&Store_Code=P&Product_Code=10-1610

They use an i960-100MHz microcontroller and a SYM53c895 Ultra2 (aka
Ultra80) SCSI host adapter.  Specs manual is here:
http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/srcu21/srtps1_3.HTM

The card is actually I2O-compliant so it's designed to be compatible
with any OS that does I2O, like Linux.  The Linux User's Manual is here:
http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/srcu21/sr21_linux_um.htm

Inter Server RAID U2-1 (SRCU21) Product Homepage is here:
http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/srcu21/index.htm

I couldn't tell but I got the idea that this card may only work with
select Intel mainboards.  Or that may be all Intel has tested them
with.  The card seems to be self-contained with everyone on the card
(not designed like Adaptec's RAIDport where the card is just the
microcontroller/memory, this has the SCSI host adapter chip too), so
maybe that is just the Intel tested list?

Anyone know?

-- Bryan

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