[SunHELP] E250 with X6542A Raid controller questions.

[Peter Stokes]

Hi Martin

Looking at the Sun site, only the E450 has an internal option via an
expansion backplane. The E250 internal backplane will probably not be
able to fit to it.

I would suggest an external Multipack or two to split the channels.

As for booting, sorry never tried it.

Peter
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On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 20:43, Martin Wedel wrote:
> Hey guys, just received a X6542 RCP raid card for my E250 from 
> anysystems. My happiness turned to sadness quickly.
> 
> My questions:
> 
> Can the X6542 be used with the internal disks in the E250.
> 
> If so, what the heck is the part # or a source for that *&*&$^# 80-pin 
> 'inverted' SCA to 68Pin connector so that I can acutally tie this card 
> to the internal SCA rack.
> 
> If I manage this, DOes Solaris support OS boot on this baby?
> 
> Did I not get the right card for my needs? (Run RAID-5 on the 6 internal 
> SCA drives).
> 
> My apologies if I missed some common knowledge on this combination. I'm 
> pretty frustrated with the time it's taken to get all the parts together 
> for this box, and now it looks like this project is going to be set back 
> yet another few weeks. Save me from having to use a DL380/linux combo 
> instead.
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> =Martin
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