[rescue] Sun Thumper info

[Phil Stracchino]

On 6/10/21 8:38 PM, Richard Thornton wrote:
> 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 :)


That would be a fascinating project that I would love to hear progress
on myself, being in the situation right this minute of looking for
larger-than-1TB drivers to put in mine.


One minor nit:  You said Thumper, and you also said X4540.  Did you
actually *mean* X4500 (Thumper), or X4540 (Thor)?


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