[rescue] SparcStorage Array

[Steve Sandau]

On 03/14/2015 06:21 AM, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " From: Walter Belgers <walter+rescue at belgers.com>
> "
> " Hi all,
> "
> " I rescues a SparcStorage Array 100 with a couple of disks, which fits nicely
> " with the sparcserver 1000 I have. (I have plenty of old disks lying around to
> " fill it up.) Does anybody have a manual for it? I can't find it online.
> "
> " I have a Sun with a 501 3475 FC sbus card. What I'm missing is a FC cable. But
> " before spending money on that:
> " - do I need special software for the sbus FC card?
> " - do I need special software for the SSA?
>
> the proper fc is an oddball that only works with the ssa 100/200, 25
> MB/s iirc.  ordinary gbics though.  iirc it does take a special driver;
> if the ssa needs anything, it's included.  it was only cert with 2g,
> 4g, and 9g disks but larger sca work fine.  stuffed with 300s...
>
> iirc also that a vxfs license was included with the driver.

I have one that I used with a couple of Ultra 2s and cluster software. I 
used Solaris 10, and I seem to remember that there were some Solaris 9 
files required, and some manual editing of a system file to make it work.

I believe I have a tar file around somewhere with the parts if you are 
interested.

I also had a power supply failure after replacing the original 2G disks 
with 4 and 9G disks, but that could just be coincidence.

Steve