[SunRescue] Diff SCSI h/w

[James Lockwood]

On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Bjrn Ramqvist wrote:

> I believe some of those "centers" was equipped as a SS1000 at top with
> all the disks down under it.
> The SS1000 was "massively" equipped with Diff/SCSI cards. Some sort of
> solution...

Aheh.  These were all connected to a 4/690 that had 4 fast/wide/diff cards
installed.  It was the early 90's megabucks NFS server setup, I only wish
I'd made it up in time to get the rack and the chassis (which were sold
for their scrap steel value).  At least the motherboard survived.

I'm going to convert at least one of these cases to hold 3.5" disks.  With
a little bit of sheetmetal fabrication and replacement cables I should
easily be able to fit 12 UW SCSI drives, and 18 would probably be nearly
as easy (standing on their sides).  I think 24 would be technically
possible but heat would be a problem.  :)

-James