[2536] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: Enclosure for new AFS server's disks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Nov 4 11:40:39 1996
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:23:36 EDT."
<199610251723.NAA13931@the-light-fantastic.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 11:39:03 EST
> I would like to try buying a multiple-disk enclosure for the new AFS
> server's external disks. On Steve's recommendation, I wanted to try a
> DEC Storageworks eight-disk enclosure, which he estimates would cost
> about $400 (less than the cost of eight single-disk enclosures). We
> can use the extra slots to house disks whose enclosures have gone bad.
> Does this sound okay with people? I have not yet found a reseller
It depends, is it easy to get individual disks out if one disk dies?
Or does an AFS server have to stay down for the entire time someone
sits there and removes n screws takes out the disk and replaces the
screws? Also, how flexable is the enclosure about SCSI busses? can
we use it for both busses on an ss5? more busses than that? 6 or 7
devices on a bus (should we decide we want to do that?
Jonathon
