topic Re: Exchange disks between L-class and Itanium2 servers in Disk

Exchange disks between L-class and Itanium2 servers

Andre Braganca — Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:35:45 GMT

We have several L-class HP-UX servers with internal disks like the "Model A6738A 73GB 10K HotPlug Ultra160 disk, for rp54X0 servers". We're considering buying the new Integrity server rx5670, based on the Itanium2 processor.

Does anyone know if we can use the old A6738A disks on the new server ? Or, vice-versa, a disk bought with the new rx5670 on the old rp5470 servers ?

Regards, Andr??

Re: Exchange disks between L-class and Itanium2 servers

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:55:12 GMT

Hi,
I can't see why this should not work. The rx5670 has Ultra 320 disks disks but the two standards is compatible. But, of course, if you connect a Ultra 160 disk to a Ultra 320 bus the bus will work as Ultra 160. And, the reverse, a Ultra 320 disk on a Ultra 160 bus work as Ultra 160.

Re: Exchange disks between L-class and Itanium2 servers

Jorge Pons — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:02:19 GMT

Hi

Yes, you can use those disks without any problem. It works Ok.

Re: Exchange disks between L-class and Itanium2 servers

Andre Braganca — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:40:12 GMT

For the benefit of future searches in this forum: we got a demo server. And we can NOT echange disks between those systems. The Itanium disks have a smaller container.

Regards !