13 Dec
2007
13 Dec
'07
4:09 p.m.
On 13/12/2007 21:10, Richard wrote:
OK, with my new Origin 2000 machines, I was thinking
that I could use
these SGI drives+sleds that I had purchased previously, where the
seller said they would work in Onyx2/Origin machines. However, while
the sleds appear compatible, the drive interface is not.
For instance, my drives have a high density connector
that is only
about 1" long, but the Origin 2000 has a high density connector that
looks to be about 2-2.5" long.
Your 1" long connector sounds like a fibre channel (FC-AL) interface.
That's a serial interface with power on the same connector. What the
Origin and Onyx2 use is an SCA connector. You can use any SCA drive in
an Origin; for a short while I had a couple of small capacity drives
borrowed from Sun systems in mine, wedged in place with small rubber
window wedges, until I got enough sleds and some larger drives.
I think some SGI FC-AL disk shelf used the same sleds as the Origin.
Perhaps that's where yours came from.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York