[rescue] StorEdge Multipack 711 questions

[Lionel Peterson]

I've seen cases that take 6x 1.6" high drives, and I seem to recall ones that took more 1" drives, not not positive.

Once upon a time I wanted to take out the SCSI backplane and replace it with a port multiplier and SATA drives with an eSATA interconnect, but I never got it all together...

As for SCSI there were too many flavors for me to keep straight - narrow, wide, fast, ultra-fast, differential, high-voltage, etc.

My experience was (intentionally) limited to narrow (sun4c) and SCA (early UltraSPARC) - good luck!

Ken

> On Feb 5, 2023, at 20:19, vom513 via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a few questions on these.
> 
> - Looks like there are a couple of models ?  Different bay configurations as well as different SCSI subsystems ?
> 
> - Reading Sun’s docs, it makes it seem like each drive burns a SCSI ID.  However there is a vendor [1] that claims it only uses one ID ?  If this is true - this is using LUNs ?
> 
> - What SBUS card(s) would be suitable / recommended to connect to one of these ?  I see lots of X1062A and X1065A on eBay - but these all say differential.  My brain cells that used to store all the SCSI nuances and rules aren’t what they used to be :)  Would these work ?
> 
> Any other tidbits, tips, experiences etc. I’d be glad to hear.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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> [1] https://unixhq.com/systems/sun-storedge-711/
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