[rescue] SS10 Sbus slot count

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 01:51:52PM -0700, James Lockwood wrote:
> On Thu, 16 May 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > I guess I need to either lower expectations on my file server or purchase
> > a PCI machine then.  Crap.  That is still going to mean needing 5 PCI
> > slots, assuming it is a headless box.
> 
> Expensive, probably.  You'd need 2 single-slot FDDI cards, a DWIS/S and
> either a FWD/fastether combo card (third party) or a SunSwift with a
> diff/SE converter to fit in a SS20.
> 
> You'd only need 4 PCI slots in a PCI Sun.  2 for FDDI cards, one for a
> dual-UWD and one for fastether.  Since you get a fastether onboard on any
> PCI Sun you may or may not need the extra port on a card.
> 
> I question the utility of stuffing all that into one box, but to each his
> own.

The scsi cards are to stripe two raid5 units.  One FDDI is supposed to be
a direct connect to a workstation.  The FastE a direct connect to another
workstation, and the second FDDI as a connection to the rest of the network.
But, it wouldn't really hurt me at this time to give up the second FDDI and
just use the onboard 10mbit (most of the rest of the network is 10mbit,
anyway and it doesn't use all that much from the file server.

The file server is to be used as direct attach storage with 80+gigs attached.


-- 
Joshua D. Boyd