[Aurora-sparc-user] Enterprise 4500

[Joacim Melin]

Hi gang,

I'm happy to report that I hauled a fully working StorEDGE 1000 home  
today complete with 12 drives (got it for free.. yayyy!).

Now, about installing Aurora on this beast, enabling software RAID and  
SMP.. can it be done?

Joacim


On Nov 17, 2008, at 6:39 PM, haroldkarl at juno.com wrote:

> Joacim,
> the cpu boards for the EXX00 series don't have any connectors on the  
> face
> plate. you are looking at
> the controller board (sorry, don't remember the real names
> http://dlc.sun.com/pdf/805-2632-11/805-2632-11.pdf ).
>
> the system boards only have three lights... the I/O boards have the  
> three
> slots for sbus cards... I don't know of
> any problems with loading Aurora on it... other than the normal
> problems... please don't buy the drive board, they
> are not reliable and if it goes down, the box goes down... find a  
> 611 or
> a 711 or your favorite jbod... just don't try
> fibre channel... Aurora doesn't handle that at all.
>
> not quite sure that the above link is for the service manual, but down
> load it and find out.
>
> good luck,
> haroldkarl
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