>On 12 Sep, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
>> I seem to recall that it is possible to split a BA350 in half by
>> pulling something out.
>What is a BA350? I know the BA23, BA123, BA2xx and BA4xx enclosures,
>but never heard of a BA350.
A BA350 is a StorageWorks shelf. It has a total of 8 slots, one of which
MUST be used for a power SBB (System Building Block), and a second that can
be used for one. The second power slot and the remaining 6 slots can be
used for drive SBB's, which are typically one slot Hard Drives, but can
also be CD-ROM's and DLT drives (both 3 slot I believe, and I don't think
there is a 8mm tape option), or a 1 slot 4mm tape drive. Unfortunatly all
I've got are disks. The BA350 shelf is Narrow SCSI, there is also a BA356
which is wide SCSI and has an additional model where the cables plug in
that takes a 'personality model', this dictates if the shelf is Narrow or
Wide.
That's just the single shelf config's. There are also shelves that take
things such as a HSZ50 which plugs into a SCSI DIFF card and can do RAID
and stuff, or another HSsomething that plugs into a DSSI bus.
Zane
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Received on Thu Sep 13 2001 - 10:56:08 BST