From: John Kelly (john.b.kelly@ul.ie)
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 06:22:15 EST
Hello,
I've seen parts of this question answered on the list before but haven't
found a comprehensive solution, so I hope somebody can provide one as a
response to this mail
We have a 70GB external SCSI hard-drive which we use for relatively
important project and application data. We back this up to tape with a
pretty standard backup regime. We are now trying to select a 70GB hard
disk onto which we will copy the backed -up data in the event of the
original external SCSI drive failing. This would only be used for a
couple of weeks while replacing the original drive. The obvious solution
from a technical perspective is to buy an identical external SCSI
hard-drive but the cost of this is prohibitive.
We have access to a couple of SUN Ultra 1's, an Ultra 2 and an Ultra 80.
>From what I can see from the architecture documentation for these
machines, none of them support IDE hard-drives (which are obviously much
cheaper). Hence, we are left with the options of using an internal SCSI
hard-drive (giving a minimal price-reduction because of not needing SCSI
cable, enclosure etc) or using an IDE drive in a PC in combination with
SAMBA, so my queries are...
(i) Am I correct in saying that the above Ultra's don't support IDE
drives?
(ii) Since SUN Ultra's running Solaris 8 support an external SCSI HD of
70 GB, I assume there won't be any problem with an internal SCSI HD of
the same size?
(iii) Is there any blindingly obvious solution to this problem that I
haven't thought of?
Thanks in advance for your help,
John Kelly.
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