topic Re: A3312A compatibility in Disk Enclosures

A3312A compatibility

Ravinder Kaul — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:48:56 GMT

Hi

WE have a A3312A HASS . Is this HASS box compatible with Sun Sparc platform or is there a way to connect this HASS box to a SUN Sparc server running Solaris
Any input will be appreciated

Thanks and Rgds

Re: A3312A compatibility

Joshua Scott — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 09:50:53 GMT

The HASS is a generic SCSI enclosure that will work for anything, including SUN. Make sure you have the right HBA card for the server. The HASS can take either HVD or SE Drives, make sure the HBA Matches the drives you have.

see the bottom of this doc for the symbols for the different flavors of scsi:
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/scsi/prot_Diff.htm

Josh

Re: A3312A compatibility

malvin drakley — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:28:27 GMT

Hi Ravinder,
If you have SE discs in your HASS unit then you need a Sun X6540A SE controller and if you have FWD discs then you need an X6541A controller
hope this helps
malvin

Re: A3312A compatibility

Joshua Scott — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:20:12 GMT

thanks malvin, I couldn't find the Sun PNs offhand. my sun box only has a FWD card, and no SE.

Josh

Re: A3312A compatibility

Ravinder Kaul — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:15:32 GMT

Thanks Joshua,Malvin for the replies

Can't the A3312A box be connected directly to the onboard external scsi port available on the server. I have a SUN Netra 1125 server or we need to add any driver for that

TAIA
RAvinder

Re: A3312A compatibility

malvin drakley — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 04:25:24 GMT

Hi Ravinder, I have looked in my Sun documentation for your Netra server and from what I can see, it looks like the output is possibly single ended, so you would need the single ended discs in your HASS. Ther would be no drivers, you would have to stop your boot with the "Stop+A" and do a "boot -r" to make your new devices, and then go in to "format" because the HP format is not the same as the Sun Format. The other thing to remember is the switch settings on the rear of the HASS unit. If you are single-ended you can only address a maximum of 7 devices and you have to make sure that you dont have matching addresses set.

cheers
malvin