impressive CI - SCSI storage rack from MTI (RAID?)

Hi ho, now I hauled it home, the modules of this very impressive MTI StorageWare assembly. It's a marvellous piece of super redundant 24/7 operational gear for any VAX cluster. The fun starts with a box that probably emulates an HSC90 or so, that one has two power supplys, and there are two of those boxes each having the 4 redundant CI connectors. Each box has 3 SCSI (?) connectors that run to another 4-box assembly and there is another layer of redundancy. Then all this drives 4 arrays of 4GB SCSI disks each having 8 such disks. I conclude that this must be a RAID array, because I don't know how else one could address 8 disks on a SCSI bus (isn't 7 devices appart from the controller the maximum?) Initially it seemed straight-forward to use as a simple CI/HSC to SCSI adapter, but now it looks like this stuff is best kept as one big impressive unit. I'm going to try find the manuals for this too. Does anyone have experience with this kind of gear? regards, -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org