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A hostadapter is a device (plug in card, or adapter) which connects a computer (called the host) to another device.

A hostadapter is a device (plug in card, or adapter) which connects a computer (called the host) to another device.

The term is mostly used with SCSI, SAS and fibre channel hostadapters.

Sometimes these are called 'controllers' but this is not the correct terminology. E.g. a SCSI drive has the controller on the drive itself (much like IDE with its integrated electronics which also places the controller on the drive). However unlike IDE a hostadapter usually has more logic on board.

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Same SCSI drive appears multiple times on the controller list

I have an Adaptec AHA-2940UW SCSI hostadapter to which I connected a single Atlas 10K III drive (and nothing more). When my computer powers up it shows POST and then the option ROM from the Adaptec HostAdapter. Here I can see the Atlas drive listed…
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Cache of SCSI disk

I have a SCSI controller (HP Smart Array 642), using cciss driver on Linux, which is connected to several SCSI disks. I am trying to optimize the communication between these devices and came to the place, that I should check how full is the cache…
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How to connect Ultrium 460 tape drive? (Ultra320 SCSI)

I have the opportunity to get, for nothing, an Ultrium 460 tape drive, and LOTS of tapes, which would give me enormous amounts of storage space to frivolously use on nothing at all. The problem is that it's a dual channel SCSI interface device that…
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Installing Adaptec 2906 SCSI card on Vista machine

I'm having some trouble installing an Adaptec 2960 SCSI card using the Add Hardware wizard on this Vista machine. The machine isn't autodetecting the card, but when I attempt to point the wizard to the driver files from the manufacturer's website…
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Is "Ultra320 LVD SCSI" the correct name of the interface?

I have a HP Ultrium 960 tape drive, but I can't figure out what the SCSI interface is called. The white paper doesn't mention it According to this site it is called "Ultra320 LVD SCSI". I can't find any PCI-E controllers with a "Ultra320 LVD SCSI"…
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Mac SCSI Options

We have a user with an old contraption (weird DigiData 1322A digitiser) that currently connects to a PowerMac G3. The time has finally come to update the machine to either an iMac or Mac Pro Due to the cost the iMac is the preferred option, however…
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SMART enabled but drive can't be tested properly?

So just today I flashed an LSI 9211-4i to IT mode, taped the 3.3V pin (along with the two reserved pins through my lack of precision) on my SAS drive and finally got it appearing in the SAS topology and in Ubuntu. I've since formatted it to ext4 and…
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SAS-HBA not working in 2nd GPU-Slot (Z68X)

I got this rig: Intel i7 2500K Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 rev1.0 Gigabyte GTX970-G1 16GB Corsair XMP Windows 7 x64 Now I added a LSI SAS3801E Host Bus Adapter to connect a LTO-drive, though while the LEDs of the card light up, I don't get to see the…
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Fibre Channel: QLogic Corp. QLA2300

My system is an Altix3000 running: (Linux sgialtix 2.4.21-sgi304r1 #1 SMP Sat Jan 29 22:43:29 PST 2005 ia64 ia64 ia64 GNU/Linux) (redhat-release=redhat-release-3AS-8.3). Which command do I use to list World Wide Name information of the QLA2300 HBA?…
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What is the difference between pcie root complex and host bus adapter

In this Wikipedia link PCI Express I found a diagram of pcie where the cpu is connected to the pcie bus and devices through the root complex and then I saw this link Host adapter which says that the host bus adapter connects the system bus (which is…
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Networking between two VMs on different host adapters having different subnet in VirtualBox

I want to make a network between two VMs on different host adapters having different subnet in VirtualBox. The base OS is ubuntu, I did a source based ping using this command but ping is not successful: ping -I vboxnet0 192.168.57.1 Where vboxnet0…
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