[SunHELP] External Tape Drive on SunFire280R

[Michael Bolen]

You wrote: "What kind of external scsi tape drive can I plug on a 280R:"

Carsten,

The short answer is: Single-ended SCSI tape drives
I have cut & pasted the following paragraph from page 126 from the "SunFire
280R Server Owner's Guide".
P/N for this document is 806-4806 and a hard copy should have shipped with
your system.

I got to this online version of the guide by visiting http://sunsolve.sun.com

Here is the long answer:


"External Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) devices are supported via a
68-pin SCSI connector
 located on the system's back panel. This bus is UltraSCSI-capable (40 Mbytes
per second) and can
 support additional external, single-ended, wide or narrow SCSI devices. The
external SCSI bus is separate
 from the internal SCSI bus for removable media devices and internal disk
drives. See "Reference for the
 UltraSCSI Connector" on page 208 for a diagram and pinout of the external
SCSI connector. The external
 SCSI bus will support up to four external SCSI tape devices if the bus is
used exclusively for tape devices.
 When other types of SCSI devices are present on the bus, a maximum of two
SCSI tape devices are
 supported on the external SCSI bus. Additional external tape devices can be
supported by installing
 appropriate PCI host adapter cards."

I hope this helps to answer your question!

Thanks
Michael Bolen (574)532-0524