[SunRescue] SCA drives?

[Cyrus M. Reed]

That sounds about right to me.  I recall reading that the SCA connectors
in the SS20 assign a SCSI ID of 1 or 3 depending on which physical
connector you use on the riser card (I could be off on the ID numbers).
That is to say that the ID number is tied to the connector on the riser
card itself.  The only thing that might not work is using a UW drive with
narrow SCSI.  You might want to check with the dirve manufacturer or one
of the FAQs at www.adaptec.com to make sure that combination would work
without frying things.

-Cyrus

P.S.  You should be able to find a field service manual (or something
similarly named) online for the SS20 at www.sun.com, which is where I
remember coming across this before.

On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> I've got a noisy SCSI (that's sexy, not scuzzy) drive in my SS20.  At
> work we use drives with SCA connectors in some of our servers.  The
> drives at work as UW scsi, while my SS20 is narrow SCSI (right?).  I was
> wondering I could use the same drives in my SS20, since they're all SCA.
> The only issue that comes to mind would be the SCSI ID, because it is
> also assigned via the SCA connector.  The drives at work can have IDs
> higher than 7, while my SS20 cannot.  Assuming that the SCSI controller
> is what assigns the ID, I shouldn't have any problems.   Anybody see
> where I've totally gone wrong?  Thanks,
>     Greg
> 
> P.S.  I think I've fixed the HTML garbage I was sending from this mail
> client.
> 
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