DoN. Nichols schrieb:
> According to Thomas Maier-Komor <thomas@maier-komor.de>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am looking for a small (max 12, preferably 6 disks) external chassis
>> for SCA disks (preferable from Sun) that is capable of handling SCSI
>> LVD-160 or even LVD-320. Unfortunately the Multipack is hardwired in a
>> way that it cannot be forced to run in LVD mode. And the same is true
>> for the A1000, as it has an internal controller. But what about D1000
>> and D130.
>
> I don't know the D130, but the D1000 (like the A1000) requires a
> HVD SCSI interface to talk to it. The *drives* in it (like the
> Multipacks) are LDV drives, but the interface provided to the computer
> is HVD only.
>
>> The S1 is also an alternative, but I haven't seen one on ebay
>> for quite some time now, and I really would prefer a small price tag, as
>> it is for home/private use.
>
> You're talking to someone else with the same restrictions. :-)
>
>> So does anybody have an idea for an alternate solution?
>
> Is there a real reason why you can't (or don't want to) use the
> Multipack? It can be quite fast -- even the ones not explicitly marked
> "ULTRA" seem to be capable to handle the Ultra speeds.
>
> Good Luck,
> DoN.

I have an Ultra tagged MultiPack, and I like it very much, because it
has just the right size, not to noisy, and it uses the regular Sun SCA
hard disk frames. I have two disks in this MultiPack, but unfortunately
it is limited to a maximum transfer rate of 40MB/s, which is really sad,
as each of those two disk can handle much more than that.

I have been looking around for some kind of SCA chassis that can handle
LVD160 or higher, but the only thing I could find are those two or three
slot high SCA backplanes that can be integrated into a PC. But my
machine only has one spare slot free, so I really seem to be out of luck
concerning this situation...

I have thought about using a generic external SCSI box and inserting one
of those SCA backplanes for PCs. But I don't really like this solution,
because these white box chassis are usually not worth the money they cost.

So any third party offering would be great, but I couldn't find one...

- Thomas