SUMMARY D1000 -> A1000 "Can I upgrade a D1000 to an A1000 by simply replacing the D1000s SCSI I/F with the A1000s RAID Controller?" Thanks to everyone who replied First I want to apologize for such a poorly phrased question. More on this later. But the answer is this: YES, IF The A1000 Controller Module is functionally dimensionally identical to the "375-0008 Differential SCSI Controller" of the D1000, and the two can be easily swapped. They share identical electrical/IF connections into the chassis. The D1000 chassis is identical to the A1000 chassis. An important point, however, that many of you pointed out, is that the D1000 has a Dual-Bus Controller, while the A1000 is Single Bus. Thus, if the box is in a working environment (as many of you assumed) with both buses implemented, a straight 'swap' would NOT be possible. Now, what I did not explain, is that I have a D1000 with NO controller at all, and I was simply trying to determine if the A1000 Controller would even FIT and if so, function, because I had a lead to acquire an A1000 Controller module. I think my choice of the phrase 'SCSI I/F' confused things as well. I felt silly calling the "375-0008 Differential SCSI Controller" of the D1000 a 'controller' or even a 'module', so I called it an I/F... sorry if this confused anyone. In my mind I meant the entire I/O assembly, and by 'A1000s RAID Controller' I meant the entire assembly. There is a Sun pdf for this: "Sun StorEdge D1000 to A1000 Upgrade" named 805-4749-10.pdf (sorry I dont have a url to it) Also, to manage the A1000, RAID Manager 6.1.1 Software is required. > Can I upgrade a D1000 to an A1000 by simply replacing the D1000s SCSI I/F > with the A1000s RAID Controller? Thank you John Martinez <xxxxx@mtbiker.net>, "Timothy Lorenc" <xxxxx@load.com>, Chintu <xxxxx@clio.rad.sunysb.edu>, xxxxx@kocsistem.com.tr, xxxxx.hammid.b@us.agfa.com, Steve Camp <xxxxx@camp.com>, Andrew Stueve <xxxxx@wcom.com>, and especially Mr. Bill, Bill Bradford <xxxxx@mrbill.net> aka sunmanagers-admin@sunmanagers.org _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Mar 19 11:21:46 2002
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