[rescue] Sun Enterprise 3500- FC-AL drives not recognized

[PhreakShow Telephone Company]

thats exactly how mine looks sans the GBAs and the cables.  mine is
missing all the GBAs.  and cables.   Ive got 8 drives in the front of
mine

Thanks :)



On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 9:39 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>   Ok, here's a pic of an E3500 that's here:
>
>   http://www.neurotica.com/misc/E3500-rear-sm.jpg
>
>   Note that my old E3500 only had a single cable back there to get to
> the internal array, if memory serves.  They are all SC fiber.
>
>             -Dave
>
> On 09/12/2017 08:57 PM, PhreakShow Telephone Company wrote:
>> So what exactly do i need to get?   ive never worked with FC-AL drives before.
>>
>> Thanks again guys.  I cant wait to get this beast operational.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>>> On 09/12/2017 08:45 PM, Carl R. Friend wrote:
>>>>> I got my first Sun Enterprise 3500 at Vintage computer festival midwest.
>>>>>
>>>>> I got it home.  got it put together.   Connected up a trusty old VT220
>>>>> and was able to get to the firmware.   The 8 FC-AL disks installed
>>>>> arent recognized.    Boots off a CD-ROM fine.
>>>>>
>>>>>> From what i can tell it requires GBIC Controllers in the disk
>>>>> controller card on the machine.
>>>>
>>>>    It's been a few years since I've seen one, but I seem to recall
>>>> that there needed to be a fibre-cable between at least one of the
>>>> SOCAL controllers and a jack in either the leftmost or rightmost
>>>> "slot" in the back so it could talk to the drives (even though
>>>> they're internal).
>>>
>>>   This is absolutely it, I remember this from my E3500.
>>>
>>>              -Dave
>>>
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>>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>>> New Kensington, PA
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> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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