[rescue] Sun Thumper info

[Lionel Peterson]

The backplane has a connector, that carries the same signals as any other
controller cable (I bet), so a jumper/breakout box should make it usefu with a
third-party controller, provided it can run on the thumper MB.

Ken

> On Jun 10, 2021, at 20:38, Richard Thornton <richie.thornton at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> o;?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
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