[rescue] Sun Thumper info

[Richard Thornton]

Hi,

I just picked up two X4540's.

Basically as a project I want to try and hookup the SATA backplane to
modern motherboard and LSI HBAs, the 1068E in Thumper can only use 2.2TB of
any SATA drive, its a 32-bit LBA limitation, I want to spend some dollars
giving the beautiful Sun hardware engineering a new lease of life with 48
big disks.

Anyone know of, or have any info on the backplane design, plans, pinouts,
anything like that, my idea is to have a PCB made that connects to the
backplane and has power molex and SFF8087 connectors (like 12 of each).

Any pointers would be much appreciated, maybe Andy Bechtolsheim hangs out
here and he can send me all of this lol :)

Cheers

Richard