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

[Francois Dion]

You'll have to take some pictures. The E3500 might not seem so, but it is a
nice home friendly machine. At least compared to the full rack stuff...

Francois

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 9:42 PM, 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
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> >>> New Kensington, PA
> >>> _______________________________________________
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> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> > New Kensington, PA
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