[rescue] Sun Enterprise 3500- FC-AL drives not recognized

[Dave McGuire]

  Very cool.  The GBICs and cables are cheap and easy to find.  With
that you should be up and running in no time.  Good luck.

               -Dave

On 09/12/2017 09:42 PM, PhreakShow Telephone Company wrote:
> thats exactly how mine looks sans the GBAs and the cables.  mine is
> missing all the GBAs.  and cables.   Ive got 8 drives in the front of
> mine
> 
> Thanks :)
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 9:39 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>>   Ok, here's a pic of an E3500 that's here:
>>
>>   http://www.neurotica.com/misc/E3500-rear-sm.jpg
>>
>>   Note that my old E3500 only had a single cable back there to get to
>> the internal array, if memory serves.  They are all SC fiber.
>>
>>             -Dave
>>
>> On 09/12/2017 08:57 PM, PhreakShow Telephone Company wrote:
>>> So what exactly do i need to get?   ive never worked with FC-AL drives before.
>>>
>>> Thanks again guys.  I cant wait to get this beast operational.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>>>> On 09/12/2017 08:45 PM, Carl R. Friend wrote:
>>>>>> I got my first Sun Enterprise 3500 at Vintage computer festival midwest.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I got it home.  got it put together.   Connected up a trusty old VT220
>>>>>> and was able to get to the firmware.   The 8 FC-AL disks installed
>>>>>> arent recognized.    Boots off a CD-ROM fine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> From what i can tell it requires GBIC Controllers in the disk
>>>>>> controller card on the machine.
>>>>>
>>>>>    It's been a few years since I've seen one, but I seem to recall
>>>>> that there needed to be a fibre-cable between at least one of the
>>>>> SOCAL controllers and a jack in either the leftmost or rightmost
>>>>> "slot" in the back so it could talk to the drives (even though
>>>>> they're internal).
>>>>
>>>>   This is absolutely it, I remember this from my E3500.
>>>>
>>>>              -Dave
>>>>
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>>>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>>>> New Kensington, PA
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