From: john benjamins (johnb@mcmaster.ca)
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 16:29:42 EDT
Hi,
boy that was quick. got a flurry of answers that fell into one of two
categories. a few people said that my original plan should be fine.
however, the other group all said basically the same thing, which is
best summed up by a FAQ on Sun's own web site. the answer is to be
found at http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/880/faqs.html#3, which says
the following:
3. How can I expand the internal disk array from six to twelve disks?
The system comes standard with a single disk backplane which will support
the first six drives. To expand beyond six, to a maximum of twelve
disks a 6-bay internal expansion FC-AL disk backplane with either
six 73 GB or six 36.4 GB disks will need to be ordered and installed.
so, what they were trying to sell me was the 6 drives, PLUS the
backplane needed to support the additional drives.
thank you to everyone who was so quick to respond. it's very much
appreciated.
cheers, -john
-- john benjamins LTRC - Teaching Infrastructure Support 905-525-9140 x27492 Thode Library B117B On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 13:19, john benjamins wrote: > Hi, > > we are thinking of adding some additional disk to our V880 (4GB RAM, six > 73GB internal disk, Solaris 8). so i called the Sun sales number for a > quote, and they said i had to buy six 73GB or six 36GB disks to add > disks to the V880. but i only want 2 more 73 GB disks! can i not buy > two 73GB FC-AL disks (X6742A) and have that be a supported > configuration? has anyone else added additional 73GB disks to a V880? > am i missing something obvious here? > > thanks! -john _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
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