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Which disc enclosure?

Mike Fisher_5 — Thu, 08 May 2003 08:30:22 GMT

An easy one...
if you know the answer
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One of our clients wants another Disc for his HP Brand racked external disc enclosure[s]

He can't give me part #'s for the disc nor the enc.

His description
A] Enc = "2 rows of 10 disc slots"
B] Disc Module = "cream coloured handle"
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From A] I suppose it could be any one of these...
2 x FC10
2 x SC10
2 x HVD10
2 x Model 10
1 x Model 20
[I don't think there's any others in a multiple of 10]

I suspect it's a Model 10 or 20
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Q. Does anyone know for sure?

Mike

Re: Which disc enclosure?

Michael Tully — Thu, 08 May 2003 08:36:31 GMT

an 'armdsp -a' may help or even a 'ioscan -fnkC disk'

Re: Which disc enclosure?

Mike Fisher_5 — Thu, 08 May 2003 08:45:23 GMT

Michael - nope
This is a remote site
Absolutely NO I.T. expertise
The system just runs in the background bothering no one

The way it's supposed to be !!

Re: Which disc enclosure?

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Thu, 08 May 2003 09:04:38 GMT

Mike

Can you client read? if so it will be labled.

;^)

Paula

Re: Which disc enclosure?

Pete Randall — Thu, 08 May 2003 09:18:29 GMT

Paula makes an excellent point, but I'm not sure how well the Model 20 (which I'm almost positive it is) is labeled. As I recall, they were pretty cryptic. I've got manuals but can find no online versions of same for you. If you want, I could fax you a picture that you could run by them.

Pete

Re: Which disc enclosure?

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Thu, 08 May 2003 09:39:56 GMT

Mike

Can you email them links to sites or pics?

If so starting point:-

http://www.asg3.com/hardware/hp/peripherals/disks/arrays/

Paula

Re: Which disc enclosure?

Pete Randall — Thu, 08 May 2003 09:45:19 GMT

Paula,

That's perfect, except it only shows the deskside version of the Model 20. From Mike's description ("2 rows of 10 disc slots"), it sounds like the rackmount version. Got any other links?

Pete

Re: Which disc enclosure?

Vijeesh CTK — Thu, 08 May 2003 09:54:23 GMT

Its model 20 only it seems.. model 10 means only 10 disks.

cheers

CTK

Re: Which disc enclosure?

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Thu, 08 May 2003 09:56:49 GMT

Mike

Another Idea:-

Speak to accounts - it was bought and paid for so there will be a purchase order for what it is.

PO info should be in IT dept also.

Paula

Re: Which disc enclosure?

Mike Fisher_5 — Thu, 08 May 2003 10:01:29 GMT

Paula
Judging by his letter he writes English better than me
[AND he can read/write from right to left which puts him in a different league from most of us]

You make me smile !

Anyway...
Paula/Pete [who never sleeps]

Thanks for your offers but

The client is in Iraq
I got his request by Airmail
He has fax,phone & email sometimes,
but not right now

All I have to go on is the info I've already given

Them's the breaks

Re: Which disc enclosure?

Pete Randall — Thu, 08 May 2003 10:03:03 GMT

Mike,

Not as pretty as Paula's picture, but you can get a diagram of a Rackmount Model 20 via Partsurfer:

http://partsurfer.hp.com/cgi-bin/spi/main?sel_flg=modinfo&model=A3232A

When you visit this page you're presented with lists of the various parts to select from. The last selection box offers a diagram and a pull-down menu to select which diagram.

Pete

Re: Which disc enclosure?

Mike Fisher_5 — Thu, 08 May 2003 10:08:14 GMT

Vijeesh

It could be TWO enclosures
One racked below the other

Re: Which disc enclosure?

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Thu, 08 May 2003 10:25:50 GMT

Mike

I am not too busy just now - I will go out and identify it for you.

I could do with a break in sunny climes.

Do you think your company would pay? ;^)

When you find the disk model - if they have no IT expertise who,how,what,where and when will it be fitted and configured?

Paula

Re: Which disc enclosure?

John Meissner — Thu, 08 May 2003 10:48:54 GMT

Paula - That's fantastic!!! :)

I completely agree

The discription will be somewhere on the device.

Re: Which disc enclosure?

Mike Fisher_5 — Thu, 08 May 2003 10:56:38 GMT

Pete:

Useful for future reference
I didn't know partsurfer did diagrams

Paula:
WWWWW - were you also once a journalist?

Have you got the correct hat for the cradle of civilization?
[mind you I reckon China & India would argue about that description]

It's the last part of a huge order which has been in the pipeline [ha ha] for some years

A few of us will be going over
So who knows...

Re: Which disc enclosure?

Pete Randall — Thu, 08 May 2003 11:01:24 GMT

Mike,

I wish you luck. I know I wouldn't want to be headed to Iraq any time in the near future.

Pete

P.S. I do too sleep!!

Re: Which disc enclosure?

Mike Fisher_5 — Thu, 08 May 2003 11:18:54 GMT

Pete:

I know that a Looooooong time ago you were in a very "hot" place

I want to go while it's still a MacDonalds-free zone :)

Doesn't anyone have a Model 20?
Maybe peek inside for me

Re: Which disc enclosure?

Pete Randall — Thu, 08 May 2003 11:35:02 GMT

Mike,

I don't have a Model 20 anymore - just got rid of them last year. I do, however, still have a spare 4GB disk from one. If I could still peek inside for you, what did you want to me to look for?

Pete

Re: Which disc enclosure?

Mike Fisher_5 — Thu, 08 May 2003 11:59:43 GMT

Pete

Is the handle Cream coloured?
[I think that with the other enclosures the disc "handles" are blue

Re: Which disc enclosure?

Pete Randall — Thu, 08 May 2003 12:05:20 GMT

Mike,

Yeah, it's cream coloured. The SC10's are more gray than cream and have a light blue release handle. The Model 20 has no release latch mechanism - you just yank it straight out/slam it straigh back in.

Anything else?

Pete