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Old 05-24-2008
hardware assistance

Hoping someone can help clarify what I need.

At present I have a Sun Ultra 2 with two ultrawide scsi cards and 2-12 drive multipacks (one multipack to one card, the other multipack to the other card), 2 Sun Ultra 10's, and a Sun E4500 with a differential scsi card connected to a half filled D1000.

I recently found a great deal on a Sun C2 Autoloader LTO2, however after reading on the internet and consulting Anysystem.com, I don't think I have the correct scsi card to attach the C2 to anything I have, nor am I clear if I can find the correct card. Presently the E4500 is my production server, the Ultra 2 is development and the Ultra 10's are just around, so I am easy going regarding which machine I connect the C2 up to.

I found somewhere on the internet that said an E250 would work (which I am familiar with and is pretty inexpensive). I know the U2 and the E4500 are sbus and the U10's are pci. What I am looking for is:

Is there a SCSI LVD card available for any of the machines I have that is compatible with the C2 (Sun or otherwise)?

or

What is the cheapest machine I can get and the cheapest scsi card that will work (that is lvd) that I can connect to the C2 and I will set that to be a backup server, just backing up the other machines?

My background is in Systems administration and database administration. I am comfortable with the hardware, but I spend most of my time supporting software and I delve into hardware when needed. I can understand a hardware solution, my difficulty comes in optimizing it, I am just not familiar enough with the options.

I appreciate your help.

Best regards,

Paul
# 2  
Old 05-24-2008
SCSI card

Hi Paul,
Have you tried the C2 connected to the on-board SCSI port of the E4500. This would be the one that is built into the I/O board, not the add-on one that you mentioned is Differential.

Try that, in my experience LVD is compatible with SE SCSI (which is what the onboard SCSI port on the E4500 is)

If this works, you won't need any additional cards. Smilie

Dave
# 3  
Old 05-24-2008
Start here: Sun System Handbook - Systems List

Click on a system and then click on hardware specs. I see that a V210 is listed as having "One Ultra-320 SCSI multimode (SE/LVD)". Maybe that would do it. But I'm not a hardware guy either.
# 4  
Old 05-26-2008
MySQL SCSI card

daveg4any,

that worked, I really appreciate it.

The C2 is now accessible via its tape drive and via its autoloader (I ordered some tapes so I can do a final test after they come in, but everything is responding the way I expect it to). The mt command comes back that there is no tape and the mtx command comes back that there are 16 slots and one drive. Very cool!

I assumed it had two differential scsi ports, I didn't realize one was differential and one was not. I lucked out when I connected the d1000 to it and connected it to the differential by chance.

That definitely did the trick.

Thanks again.

Paul
# 5  
Old 05-27-2008
Glad to help :)

Glad it worked, Paul!

Dave
PS> Next time you call AnySystem, feel free to ask for me Smilie
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