Thanks Chipman and others. Question: I herited a storedge T3 (Fiber Optic) array. My question is can I attach the Storedge T3 to one of the following severs: Netra T1 105 box Sunblade 150 box Ultra 5 box And if so ,Storedge being FD what kind of card or adapter is recommended ? FROM Chipman: You need an FCAL HBA, you can determine the exact part Sun would recommend with a visit to sunsolve.com and checking the T3 specs in the online handbook. We've got a T3 here and when we first were testing a loaner from Sun prior to purchase, we installed the PCI FCAL HBA Card in an Ultra5, a Blade100, and an E450 for testing purposes. It worked fine in all cases, although I believe you get better performance (bandwidth) when using 64-bit PCI slots (absent in U5/blade100 ; present in E450 in our case). Only big requirement was to read the install manual for the T3, which describes various patches that are required for specific Solaris versions/revisions. It was important to install appropriate patches, shutdown the box, install the HBA, "reboot -r", and subsequently we could see the T3 as a standard drive under the "format" command. Pretty straightforward. Setting up the raid array itself to another config requires that you connect to the host via telnet ; first you must RARP an IP address onto the beast, not instantly trivial to do but certainl very doable if you read the manual and follow the directions. Typically sun ships T3 bricks with a single raid5 volume I believe (ie, all drives in the raid 5 array, no hotspare defined). Depending on the config setup by the previous owners it may (or may not) be configured thus. You can get these manuals also from sun online in PDF format. Good luck, hope this helps. Tim John Corcoran wrote: > Hello SunManagers, > > I herited a storedge T3 (Fiber Optic) array. > > My question is can I attach the Storedge T3 to one of the following severs: > > Netra T1 105 box > Sunblade 150 box > Ultra 5 box > > And if so ,Storedge being FD what kind of card or adapter is recommended ? > > Thanks in Advance. > > > > > John Corcoran > 978-741-0126 > 27 Congress Street > Salem, Ma 01970 > > Unix system Administrator > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Jul 21 09:30:03 2003
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