Wanted: Empty SCSI SCA-80 RAID tower...

From: David Woyciesjes <DAW_at_yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
Date: Tue Feb 12 10:32:57 2002

> ----------
> From: Eric Dittman
>
> > Well, I think I may have found that guy. I need to find out if a
> > Digital BA 350-SA Storage Shelf is what I'm looking for...
>
> The BA350 storage shelves are narrow-only. You can't use the
> wide SBBs in them. A BA356 would probably be a better choice.
> A lot of the newer wide SBBs use SCA drives.
>
> The BA35x use a proprietary backplane, not an SCA backplane.
> Fortunately, you can find the SBBs cheap.
> --
>
Yeah, probably the same backplane that's in the older AlphaServers here...

So, to see if I understand you correctly...

- The SBB is the tray for the HDD...
- The SBBs for use in the 350, have a 50 pin connector, none have the SCA...
-- If so, I wonder if there is room inside the tray to fit a SCA 80-50pin
adapter?
-If I want to use narrow SCA-80 drives in a Digital Storage Shelf, I should
look for the 356 and SBBs for that?

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