I posted this yesterday and only got four responses, but I felt a summary should be made with what I got. Two people pointed out that the SCSI controller on the V440 is a dual channel controller with one channel being used for the internal disks and the other going to the HD68 connector on the rear panel. I assume if no bridging is done that the external devices will not adversely affect the internal disks. So, I trust that this will indeed work. Thanks Bob and GB. ORIGINAL POST: Our intent is to attach an Overland LoaderXpress Tape autoloader with one LTO-2 Ultrium tape drive(LVD) to a SunFire V440 Server. The specifications for the V440 state that among the "Standard Integrated Interfaces" is "One Ultra320 SCSI (LVD)". I have confirmed that the system has four Hitachi 73 Gig LVD hard drives installed internally and apparently nothing else on the SCSI bus. There is a DVD-ROM installed but it appears to be a Toshiba IDE device. The rear panel of the V440 does have a High Density 68-pin jack but it is not part of the PCI expansion rack which leads me to believe the LVD interface is part of the motherboard. Can you positively confirm that this autoloader can go on our machine without adding another SCSI card? Ah! I see it now! I used the word positively....must have scared some potential respondants away! Larry _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Mar 17 10:35:56 2004
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