Dear fellas, I was recently involved in the moving of a netapp filer from a hosting facility to our office building, and during transportation, I lost the terminator that plugs into the port that looks like a serial-port on the back of the disk shelf. That port is labeled "output/terminator" on the back of disk shelf (I assume the casing actually housing the disks is called the disk shelf?)
Where can I find a replacement for this terminator? Would a standard retail store carry something like this? If so, which ones?
Any help appreciated. I've not tried running the filer without that terminator, does anyone know what would happen if I did? Do I stand to lose data?
Thanks
Robert Johannes Systems Administrator Kairos-Damango Internet Services Inc. 1300 Godward Street suite 3200 Minneapolis, MN 55413
I believe if you have FC9's you don't need the terminator... they're auto-terminating...
-corris
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Robert Johannes wrote:
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:01:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Johannes rjohanne@damango.net To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Need terminator for one of the disk shelfs.
Dear fellas, I was recently involved in the moving of a netapp filer from a hosting facility to our office building, and during transportation, I lost the terminator that plugs into the port that looks like a serial-port on the back of the disk shelf. That port is labeled "output/terminator" on the back of disk shelf (I assume the casing actually housing the disks is called the disk shelf?)
Where can I find a replacement for this terminator? Would a standard retail store carry something like this? If so, which ones?
Any help appreciated. I've not tried running the filer without that terminator, does anyone know what would happen if I did? Do I stand to lose data?
Thanks
Robert Johannes Systems Administrator Kairos-Damango Internet Services Inc. 1300 Godward Street suite 3200 Minneapolis, MN 55413
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Corris Randall wrote:
I believe if you have FC9's you don't need the terminator... they're auto-terminating...
It sounds like his disk shelf is connected to a slot-based FC-AL adapter, so he still needs the terminator for the on-board adapter (matching his description of a serial port).
We recently purchaced a FC-AL 720, and I asked about the terminator. I was told it depends on the model of the drive-shelf as to whether or not it self terminates. Don't remember which was which though.
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Brian Tao wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Corris Randall wrote:
I believe if you have FC9's you don't need the terminator... they're auto-terminating...
It sounds like his disk shelf is connected to a slot-based FC-ALadapter, so he still needs the terminator for the on-board adapter (matching his description of a serial port). -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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