[2537] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: Enclosure for new AFS server's disks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Nov 4 11:48:05 1996
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Nov 1996 11:39:03 EST."
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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 11:43:31 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> 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?
I believe that SCSI cabling is done externally, so you can play
arbitrary games, although it won't help reduce your SCSI chain length.
> 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?
Not sure on this one. Obviously, if we use the same enclosure for
multiple machines, this is a serious concern. I'll try to find out.
