Does anyone know which of the two internal disks in a blade 2000 is at
SCSI ID 1, and which one is SCSI ID 2?

I cant seem to see it in the service manual.

On 2007-10-19, Dave <nowhere@nowhere.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know which of the two internal disks in a blade 2000 is at
> SCSI ID 1, and which one is SCSI ID 2?
>
> I cant seem to see it in the service manual.

1 is the bottom one, 2 is the top one.

It's in the SB2000 Service Manual; 816-3217-10


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Dave wrote:
> Does anyone know which of the two internal disks in a blade 2000 is at
> SCSI ID 1, and which one is SCSI ID 2?
>
> I cant seem to see it in the service manual.
>

The SCSI ID is generally configured by "Berg jumpers" somewhere on the
drive. Berg jumpers are the little plastic blocks that slip over two
adjacent pins. If you can't find them, look at the label on the drive
to get the manufacturer and model, then Google for the documentation.

In cases where the drive is installed in some sort of sled, caddy or
"spud" and plugs into the machine the SCSI ID is determined by the slot
you plug it into.

Huge wrote:
> On 2007-10-19, Dave <nowhere@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone know which of the two internal disks in a blade 2000 is at
>> SCSI ID 1, and which one is SCSI ID 2?
>>
>> I cant seem to see it in the service manual.
>
> 1 is the bottom one, 2 is the top one.
>
> It's in the SB2000 Service Manual; 816-3217-10
>
>
Thanks.

I found the service manual, but could not find the information. I
guessed it would be in there somewhere! In the end I decided just to
pull a disk out and find out that way. I got lucky, as the first one I
pulled out was not the boot disk.

I've just put a new 15,000 rpm 147 GB Hitachi disk in the box (#1 below).

AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c1t1d0 <SUN72G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 424>
/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/ssd@w21000004cfa13aed,0
1. c1t2d0 <HITACHI-HUS151414VLF200-F260 cyl 34181 alt 2 hd 10
sec 840>
/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/ssd@w5000cca00140e4ba,0
2. c2t3d0 <SEAGATE-ST173404LC-0003 cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 424>
/pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1/sd@3,0


Just copying my data to it, which I first copied from the 73 GB FC-AL
internal disk to an external SCA disk (#2 in above list).

The Hitachi does seem a bad disk for $99 - no problems installing it at
all. I'll fit the other one later (I bought a pair).

All I need to sort out now is semi sensible way of backing this up. An
external 500 GB SATA disk seems like it might be a good idea.

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> The SCSI ID is generally configured by "Berg jumpers" somewhere on the
> drive. Berg jumpers are the little plastic blocks that slip over two
> adjacent pins. If you can't find them, look at the label on the drive
> to get the manufacturer and model, then Google for the documentation.
>
> In cases where the drive is installed in some sort of sled, caddy or
> "spud" and plugs into the machine the SCSI ID is determined by the slot
> you plug it into.
>

These are on spud brackets. I wanted to pull the one out that it did not
boot from. I got there first time, which is unusual!

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:56:07 +0100
Dave <someplace@nowhere-nice.com> wrote:

> All I need to sort out now is semi sensible way of backing this up.
> An external 500 GB SATA disk seems like it might be a good idea.

No SATA controllers in an SB2K. I use a pair of USB 2 disk connected to
a NEC-based 5-port USB controller, which works quite well and has the
added advantage of letting you connect a DVD writer to the SB2K.

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Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:56:07 +0100
> Dave <someplace@nowhere-nice.com> wrote:
>
>> All I need to sort out now is semi sensible way of backing this up.
>> An external 500 GB SATA disk seems like it might be a good idea.
>
> No SATA controllers in an SB2K. I use a pair of USB 2 disk connected to
> a NEC-based 5-port USB controller, which works quite well and has the
> added advantage of letting you connect a DVD writer to the SB2K.
>

I was looking at that, but also firewall, which supposidly is quicker
for disks than USB2.

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:36:03 +0100
Dave <nowhere@nowhere.com> wrote:

> Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:56:07 +0100
> > Dave <someplace@nowhere-nice.com> wrote:
> >
> >> All I need to sort out now is semi sensible way of backing this up.
> >> An external 500 GB SATA disk seems like it might be a good idea.
> >
> > No SATA controllers in an SB2K. I use a pair of USB 2 disk
> > connected to a NEC-based 5-port USB controller, which works quite
> > well and has the added advantage of letting you connect a DVD
> > writer to the SB2K.
> >
>
> I was looking at that, but also firewall, which supposidly is quicker
> for disks than USB2.

It used to be so that the FireWire port on the SB[12]K was only
usable with the Sun 1394 camera. I've not tried to use FireWire disks
with Solaris 10 on my SB2K - the USB disks work well enough (I have them
mirrored with SVM) for backup purposes I'm not motivated to pay the
premium for FireWire.

Take care,

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Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
for disks than USB2.
>
> It used to be so that the FireWire port on the SB[12]K was only
> usable with the Sun 1394 camera. I've not tried to use FireWire disks
> with Solaris 10 on my SB2K - the USB disks work well enough (I have them
> mirrored with SVM) for backup purposes I'm not motivated to pay the
> premium for FireWire.
>

From what I can see looking around at modern external disks, most have
both USB and firewire, so there is no price premium for firewire.

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:46:59 +0100
Dave <nowhere@nowhere.com> wrote:

> Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> for disks than USB2.
> >
> > It used to be so that the FireWire port on the SB[12]K was only
> > usable with the Sun 1394 camera. I've not tried to use FireWire
> > disks with Solaris 10 on my SB2K - the USB disks work well enough
> > (I have them mirrored with SVM) for backup purposes I'm not
> > motivated to pay the premium for FireWire.
> >
>
> From what I can see looking around at modern external disks, most
> have both USB and firewire, so there is no price premium for firewire.

Our local hypermarket has LaCie 500GB USB drives on sale for ?99. The
cheapest FireWire/USB combo drives I could find were 320GB drives for
?139 at a computer megastore that had the 250GB Lacie USB models for
?89. YMMV.

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