Dan O'Brien wrote:
We are now looking at maintaining the hardware ourselves. We are planning on securing some spare parts and build a small hot spare system from which we can pull parts as needed.
Hi, remember us? We secured enough spare parts to build a small hot spare F630 system, or at least we think we have :-) but are having some trouble getting the single disk shelf working.
Whenever we physically attach the disk rack to the controller via the SCSI cable, we get a SCSI bus timeout during the "scanning for disk drives" phase. This happens whether the disk rack is powered up or not or disk drives (Seagate ST39173WC (9.1GB) 3 1/2" 7200 RPM Single Ended Ultra-1 SCSI) plugged in or not
The controller says it's a dual-diff-wide scsi, and we have it in slot 7. There is a footnote in some of the documentation for the disk shelf that says:
"The first Dual StorageShelf 1 or 2 disk shelf in an F630 shelf pair must be configured with a differential to single-ended SCSI converter. Converters for these disk shelves are not interchangeable."
Ok, we're neophytes. What are we doing wrong? Is there some part missing? The disk shelf itself, looks like the second disk shelf of a pair if we look inside our existing F630 filer.
Thanks in advance,
Dan O'Brien, dmobrien@lcsi.net Cell: 614-783-4859 Work: 614-476-8473 Home: 740-927-2178 Pataskala, OH