[rescue] d1000 terminating cables

Ahmed Ewing aewing at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 09:25:28 CDT 2007


On 7/23/07, William Enestvedt <William.Enestvedt at jwu.edu> wrote:
> Ahmed wrote:
> >
> > Those parts will work, but equally if not more importantly, make sure
> > that you are attempting to connect the D1000 to a HVD SCSI channel,
> > not single-ended (you didn't clarify this). This means you cannot use
> > the onboard SCSI ports, which are single-ended. On an E4500 you
> > probably have SBus I/O boards, so your best bet would be a UDWIS/S
> > card (single-port Ultra Wide Differential SCSI SBus card, 68 pin).
> > The Sun part number is 370-2443.
> >
>
>    For what it's worth, I used a combo SBus card (Fast EtherNet & SCSI)
> to hook A1000s to my E3500s. I don't have the part in front of me,
> though I might be able to find it.
>
Yup, that would be the DSBE/S card, I think part number 501-1902.
Technically it's not "supported" for use with the A1000/D1000 because
it's a sun4c-era part which isn't Ultra Wide, but it should get the
job done in actual practice if that's what you have available.

-A



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