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

[Peter Stokes]

Hi

Hopefully this may be of some use.

The photo shows a fully stacked setup with redundant fibre channels. As per
others if I remember correctly....

Looking at the photo, the cards with the fibre connection to the right are the
I/O cards with GBIC slots and are part of the backplane of the system. To the
left is the interface to the disks which has 4 GBIC slots. The slots are in
pairs for the disk backplane. The top two go to the top row of disks, the
bottom two go to the bottom row of disks. To use all 8 disks, you just need
one cable to the top pair of GBIC connectors and one to the bottom pair. I
think the E3500 had the probe-fcal command to allow you to see them from the
ok prompt.

On the GBICs there were two types, again if I remember they were called long
and short range ones and they do not mix.

Peter
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Peter Stokes
Ashlyn Computer Services
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On 13 Sep 2017, at 02:42, PhreakShow Telephone Company
<phreakshowtelco at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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