MTI storage array

MTI was pretty much just a... generic... I suppose you'd say, enclosure manufacturer, kind of like Supermicro is. Any MTI box I ever encountered was just a "dumb" enclosure... no smarts... in this case you'd hook it up to a separate RAID controller card in the host (or just a plain old SCSI card); all disks are presented individually i.e. "JBOD". I'm not familiar enough with them to rule out them having perhaps made enclosures with integrated RAID, in which case you'd configure the LUN in the enclosure's management interface, and just those LUNs are presented to the host. The reason I even suspect the latter at all is because there appears to be a RS-232 port on the enclosure in one of the pics. If you're curious, you might try hooking a PC with terminal emulator up to that, with and without a null modem adapter, and see what comes out. A good guess at the comms parameters is 9600 8/N/1. If that doesn't work... :| But I don't think you should concern yourself with that off the bat, just find an appropriate SCSI cable, hook it up to the workstation and see what comes up. Hopefully whatever's there might just be intact, and all you'll need to do is connect it. The cabling is not too difficult to find. If you're on a university campus, probably lots of groups have tons of these laying around in various cabinets gathering dust (SCSI is pretty dated... you see it in production a lot less... many things are now SAS). I know that's certainly the case at U-M! Might be worth asking around your department's IT group. If you do want to buy new, lots of places sell them, here's just a quick example from Googling: http://www.cs-electronics.com/68-pin-cables.htm Best, Sean On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Joseph Lenox <lenox.joseph at gmail.com> wrote: