My Alphaserver 2100 has arrived, and is presently sitting in my machine room
awaiting cutover next Sunday. From reading the system docs, I can't extend
the internal SCSI bus outside the cabinet to a StorageWorks pedestal, so
it'll be used for the RRD43 and TLZ06 only. That leaves me 3 SCSI buses on
an SWXCR-EB, on which I get to install 5 RZ28Bs. I've configured it in JBOD
mode, and plan to simply stuff the 3 RZ28Bs from my current 3000/400 into
the new box. Only catch: Can I take the existing disk, connect it to the
SWXCR, and run it, or do I have to run the RCU initialization on each drive,
thus destroying the existing data? The system seems to treat RZ28s connected
to the SWXCR differently from RZ28s connected to a regular SCSI bus...
I'd really hate to have to back up and restore 6 GB of data in the
installation process.
For those who were interested, I decided to go ahead and install OSF/1 3.2
from scratch, since the system came with 3.0 on it. The consensus was that I
could have copied the existing system from the 3000/400 to the 2100, booted
the generic kernel, and run doconfig, and then edited a few files to reflect
the change in name of teh Ethernet adapter, but I decided to start over
instead.
--
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
http://k5zc.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
"Jack Sprat could eat no fat...so he became macrobiotic and a giant pain in
the neck." -- Dot Warner, "Jack Sprat"
Received on Wed Apr 12 1995 - 14:38:44 NZST