Greetings, list-
We have an old 1000A (Tru64 4.0D) with but a single disk (that which was
supplied with the server) in the integral StorageWorks cabinet. We
recently bought an 18.2G Quantum ultra wide SCSI disc (Atlas IV) from our
campus vendor,
and would like to install this into the cabinet as well. We're being
stymied by a seemingly trivial hardware issue.
We have a spare sled we'd like to use. It's much like any of the dozens
of sleds I've seen for StorageWorks. The hitch is that while the
backplane of the StorageWorks cabinet is "Wide ready" (pp. 1-4, 1-5 of the
1000A/s Owner Guide), and is connected to the 68-pin Wide SCSI
StorageWorks connector on the system board (e.g., 6-8 of the Owner's
Guide)... and while the drive itself is wide... any of the sleds I've seen
have NARROW ribbon-cable interfaces in them (the small, folded length of
ribbon cable that plugs into the physical drive on one end, with a 3x32
pin backplane female socket on the other and some surface mount logic).
What's up? I've asked our regular supplier for a wide-to-3x32 adapter for
these sleds, but he couldn't find any. He wasn't even sure they existed.
So - how does one put a disc with a 68-pin "wide" SCSI connector on it
into a StorageWorks cabinet? Aren't virtually all SCSI discs wide these
days?
Any ideas or directions would be welcomed.
Thanks
Chris
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Christopher C Stevenson C3004 office: (709) 737-2624
Dept. of Physics & Physical Oceanography fax: (709) 737-8739
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland, CANADA A1B 3X7
URL:
http://www.physics.mun.ca/~csteven
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Received on Thu Jan 13 2000 - 14:27:32 NZDT