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by **Julian Thoma** » Mon, 06 Oct 2003 06:33:48

Hi!

i've got an urgent question:

is it possible to connect a D1000 diskarray to a SunSwift PCI card?

Thanks

Julian

by **Rich Tee** » Mon, 06 Oct 2003 13:12:46

> Hi!

> i've got an urgent question:

> is it possible to connect a D1000 diskarray to a SunSwift PCI card?

The D1000 has a differential interface, and the SunSwift
is single ended. So no, it won't work. You can find out
the answers to these sorts of questions by looking at
SUn's HW answerbook.

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by **Torsten Kirschne** » Mon, 06 Oct 2003 17:25:25

> > Hi!

> > i've got an urgent question:

> > is it possible to connect a D1000 diskarray to a SunSwift PCI card?

> The D1000 has a differential interface, and the SunSwift
> is single ended. So no, it won't work. You can find out
> the answers to these sorts of questions by looking at
> SUn's HW answerbook.

Specifically, the external interface(s) of the D1000 are HVD
- high voltage differential, while the disks are SE UW.

HBAs supporting that on SPARC Solaris can be had from Sun,
LSI Logic and others. For some time these were rather cheap, but
now even LSI charges serious money for them.

eBay, on the other hand, usually has some up for auction. The
LSI 22802 comes to mind - AFAIK, it is identical to the Sun X6541A.
These work plug&play on SPARC Solaris.

Check this out:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2757315277&categor...

I haven't personally tried this modell on Solaris, so YMMV.

by **Julian Thoma** » Mon, 06 Oct 2003 18:54:28

>>>Hi!

>>>i've got an urgent question:

>>>is it possible to connect a D1000 diskarray to a SunSwift PCI card?

>>The D1000 has a differential interface, and the SunSwift
>>is single ended. So no, it won't work. You can find out
>>the answers to these sorts of questions by looking at
>>SUn's HW answerbook.

> Specifically, the external interface(s) of the D1000 are HVD
> - high voltage differential, while the disks are SE UW.

> HBAs supporting that on SPARC Solaris can be had from Sun,
> LSI Logic and others. For some time these were rather cheap, but
> now even LSI charges serious money for them.

> eBay, on the other hand, usually has some up for auction. The
> LSI 22802 comes to mind - AFAIK, it is identical to the Sun X6541A.
> These work plug&play on SPARC Solaris.

> Check this out:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2757315277&categor...

> I haven't personally tried this modell on Solaris, so YMMV.

THanks for the answers. I will buy a refurbished Sun Controller (X6541A
- i've read the doc to the D1000 on docs.sun.com and it's the right
controller ;))

Julian

by **Anthony Whitehea** » Mon, 06 Oct 2003 10:01:28

> Hi!

> i've got an urgent question:

> is it possible to connect a D1000 diskarray to a SunSwift PCI card?

As far as I know D1000 array's require Diff SCSI, and if I remember
rightly the SunSwift is only SE SCSI... so I would say no it won't work,
if anyone has the specs to hand they can feel free to correct me =)

/Ant

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by **Julian Thoma** » Tue, 07 Oct 2003 06:31:08

>> Hi!

>> i've got an urgent question:

>> is it possible to connect a D1000 diskarray to a SunSwift PCI card?

> As far as I know D1000 array's require Diff SCSI, and if I remember
> rightly the SunSwift is only SE SCSI... so I would say no it won't work,
> if anyone has the specs to hand they can feel free to correct me =)

> /Ant

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i found the spec at sunsolve. You're right. The SunSwift is single-ended
and the D1000 requiresa diff. scsi-controller.

Thanks to all for the fast replies!

Julian

by **Kralizec Cra** » Sun, 12 Oct 2003 06:45:02

>i've got an urgent question:
>is it possible to connect a D1000 diskarray to a SunSwift PCI card?

No - the D1000 (and A1000) arrays use HVD SCSI, and the SunSwift cards are
SE/LVD SCSI, not HVD. You will have to use something like an x6541a card
(aka Symbios/LSI SYM-22802), or another HVD SCSI card using a Symbios/LSI
53c87x series controller which will work with the Solaris 'glm' driver.

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