Sun Blade 2000 and 146 GB drive

Markus

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Jan 22, 2009, 10:25:40 PM1/22/09

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Does anybody know if any of Sun's 146 GB drives would work in a Blade
2000? I know it's not officially supported and most if not all 146 GB
drives are Ultra320. Not sure what that implies for using one in a Sun
Blade 2000, though. Was unable to find what SCSI speeds the Blade
supports.

Thanks,
-Markus

Richard B. Gilbert

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Jan 22, 2009, 11:43:17 PM1/22/09

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The Blade does not "support" SCSI! The HOST BUS ADAPTER (HBA) supports
SCSI, if a SCSI HBA is present. I've never seen a Blade but I suspect
that it has a built in EIDE controller. You could install a SCSI HBA in
a PCI slot, if you want one. The disks will be considerably more
expensive than EIDE disks!

Markus

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Jan 23, 2009, 12:43:18 AM1/23/09

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On Jan 22, 8:43 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber...@comcast.net>
wrote:

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> The Blade does not "support" SCSI! The HOST BUS ADAPTER (HBA) supports
> SCSI, if a SCSI HBA is present. I've never seen a Blade but I suspect
> that it has a built in EIDE controller. You could install a SCSI HBA in
> a PCI slot, if you want one. The disks will be considerably more
> expensive than EIDE disks!

Are you talking about Sun's server blades or the Sun Blade
workstations? I am talking about the latter, which comes with up to
two 73 GB FC-AL SCSI disks. What I want to know is if I could use a
146 GB disk.

Regards,
-Markus

Richard B. Gilbert

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Jan 23, 2009, 9:43:08 AM1/23/09

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I know of now reason why not! But, since I don't know a lot about Sun
Blade workstations and have no experience with fiber SCSI I am the wrong
person to ask.

I'm curious. How much does a 73 GB FC-AL disk cost? More, less, or
about the same as wired SCSI?

Andreas Wacknitz

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Jan 23, 2009, 11:04:04 AM1/23/09

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Markus schrieb:

I have 146GB drives (Seagate) in my Blade 2000. I don't see a reason why
even bigger disks shouldn't work (with FC interface of course).

Regards
Andreas

Michael Laajanen

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Jan 23, 2009, 6:59:44 PM1/23/09

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Hi,

Without having a Blade2000, I would still eat my hat if you find any
normal FC-AL disk that would not work of any size of today!

I only have a 2500 which has SCSI which once had a Sun 147, now two
300GB non Sun drives.

I have no experience of having disk(skipping IDE ofcourse) not working
as should if not put in a HW raid.

So get the disk you prefer!

/michael

Dave

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Jan 24, 2009, 7:20:36 AM1/24/09

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I've not got Sun disks (but I do have Hitaci 147 GB disks in my Blade
2000. Note you need FCAL disks, and not the more common 80 pin SCA
connector) .

# uname -a
SunOS kestrel 5.10 Generic_137137-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000
# cat /etc/release
Solaris 10 10/08 s10s_u6wos_07b SPARC
Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 27 October 2008
# format
Searching for disks...done

AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c1t1d0 <HITACHI-HUS151414VLF200-F260 cyl 34181 alt 2 hd 10
sec 840>
/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/ssd@w5000cca00140b0ba,0
1. c1t2d0 <HITACHI-HUS151414VLF200-F260-136.92GB>
/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/ssd@w5000cca00140e4ba,0
Specify disk (enter its number):

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Markus

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Jan 24, 2009, 10:59:56 PM1/24/09

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Thanks everybody. I thought it'd work, but I wanted to make sure.

-Markus