[Suns-at-Home] Sunblade 1000 doesn't detect FCAL disk!

[Hessel Keegstra]

Hi,

Both Blade 1000 and 2000 machines do have an external FCAL connector at
the back, it is a FCAL (Copper) HSSDC8 connector that is located below
the IEEE 1394 connectors i.e. it is the lowest connector. Actually,
these machines do not have fiber FCAL at all nor are GBICs supported
natively, both internal drives are obviously copper based devices and so
is the external bus. Blade 1000 and 2000 (and the rack mount E280R) FCAL
implementation is a bit of a cheapo solution though, SUN only
implemented one channel. FCAL drives are dual channel, but only one
channel can be used in a Blade 1000 and 2000, probably to keep the cost
down.

You can use that external HSSDC8 connector to connect your Blade to any
external FCAL device either direct or via a fabric Hub or Switch. If you
need to connect to a fiber FCAL device (and most are fiber based) you
need to use a converter, those are not cheap - it is cheaper to eBay a
fiber FCAL PCI-X card e.g. SUN 375-0040 and use that instead. That is
the route I took at home to connect my Blade 2000 to a SUN T3+ array
with 9 73GB FCAL disks. 

Best regards,

	Hessel


-----Original Message-----
From: suns-at-home-admin@net-kitchen.com
[mailto:suns-at-home-admin@net-kitchen.com] On Behalf Of Ron Wickersham
Sent: donderdag 21 december 2006 21:57
Cc: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com
Subject: Re: [Suns-at-Home] Sunblade 1000 doesn't detect FCAL disk!

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Craig Dewick wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am running this system as a SunBlade 1000 now. Really nice hardware,
but
> it isn't seeing the brand new 73 GB FCAL disk I put into it. At
present
> I'm running the machine off the older 73 GB 80-pin SCSI disk mounted
in an
> external box. Kinda klunky. 8-)

in a related question, has anyone extended the FCAL loop outside the box
to include external FC drives?   there is no connector on the back
except
the SCSI one.  i'd like to add 7 more FC drives exteral to the machine
in
addition to the two internal ones.

-ron
_______________________________________________
Suns-at-Home mailing list
Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com
http://www.net-kitchen.com/mailman/listinfo/suns-at-home