SB1000 - does it need to have a PCI FCAL card to run internal FCAL? - Article 2414 - go-pugleaf

Article View: comp.sys.sun.hardware

Article #2414

Back to comp.sys.sun.hardware Previous Next

SB1000 - does it need to have a PCI FCAL card to run internal FCAL?

#2414

From: Kralizec Craig
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:42

27 lines
2052 bytes

Hi,

I can't really get a good answer to this question...

Does a SunBlade 1000 need to have a PCI FCAL card installed in order to use
the internal FCAL disk backplane? 

If it does, are there specific Sun FCAL cards that work with the FCAL
drivers, or will generic PCI FCAL cards be ok?

If it doesn't, what could be preventing a brand new 73 GB Hitachi FCAL drive
(not Sun-OEM'd) from being detected when I run the Solaris 'format' utility?

When I first got the machine it was missing internal fans, but all the other
cabling looked to be in place. It's possible I might have missed the FCAL
cabling so next time the system is opened (need to install some more RAM!),
I'll be checking to make sure all the relevant cabling for the FCAl
backplane is in place.

Craig.


-- 
SUN RIPENED KERNELS - Surplus Sun Microsystems Equipment, Parts + Accessories
Location: Sydney, Australia - Web: http://www.sunrk.com.au - Get back on track
at the SunShack - Web: http://www.sunshack.org - Cobalt Users mailing list
Web: http://lios.apana.org.au/mailman/listinfo/cobalt_users

Technical Details

Message-ID: <eoh013$1m0$4@yoda.apana.org.au>

Path:

arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.germany.com!fu-berlin.de!news.wa.apana.org.au!news.yoda.apana.org.au!cd

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Thread: f4671,569a229c261ae16e,start
X-Google-Thread: 10d053,569a229c261ae16e,start
X-Google-Thread: 113606,569a229c261ae16e,start
X-Google-Attributes: gidf4671,gid10d053,gid113606,public
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
From: Kralizec Craig <cd@lios.apana.org.au>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,aus.computers.sun,uk.comp.sys.sun
Subject: SB1000 - does it need to have a PCI FCAL card to run internal FCAL?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:42:43 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Core Matrix Foundation inc. ORBnet
Lines: 27
Message-ID: <eoh013$1m0$4@yoda.apana.org.au>
NNTP-Posting-Host: lios.apana.org.au
X-Trace: yoda.apana.org.au 1168900963 1728 203.14.152.52 (15 Jan 2007 22:42:43 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: postmaster@yoda.apana.org.au
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:42:43 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: nn/6.6.5
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.germany.com!fu-berlin.de!news.wa.apana.org.au!news.yoda.apana.org.au!cd