Subject: Re: How to hang differential scsi drive tray off single ended sun sbe card?
To: None <Robertdkeys@aol.com>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/05/2003 20:49:39
[ On Tuesday, August 5, 2003 at 19:59:04 (EDT), Robertdkeys@aol.com wrote: ]
> Subject: How to hang differential scsi drive tray off single ended sun sbe card?
>
> Does anyone know of any type of single ended to differential wide 
> adapter or controller that could be used to run a Sun RSM array
> tray (7 drives differential scsi interface) off a Sun SBE scsi/ethernet
> module of a sun4m or sun4u class machine?  I have this very nice
> RSM array drive tray just sitting and wanting to really run on one
> of my SS20's or Ultras.  I would hate to just part the trays out for
> the sca drives, if they could be used whole.

DEC made adapters that went from differential to SE so that you could
hang a bunch of SE disks in a (bunch of) StorageWorks tray(s) off the
end of a long cable.  I don't know if thoose converters are fully
bi-directional and transparent or not though.

I think you'd be better off looking for a differential host adapter....

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