LVD - Thanks (was: IBM 7137 Disk Array)

2000-03-09 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 08:46:46AM -0500, Randolph K. Zeitvogel wrote: > > Ok, I'll out myself: What's "LVD"? > > Low Voltage Differential. [...] Thanks for the explanation (also to David who contacted me off-list). I thought it would be something like that, as I'm aware of the existence of diff

Re: IBM 7137 Disk Array

2000-03-09 Thread Randolph K. Zeitvogel
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 12:01:47PM -0500, Pieckiel, Kevin A wrote: > [...] > > connect it to our fileserver. It's a Pentium running Linux, kernel 2.2.14, > > and it has an Adaptec 29160 (this one has an external 68-pin LVD connector),

Re: IBM 7137 Disk Array

2000-03-09 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 12:01:47PM -0500, Pieckiel, Kevin A wrote: [...] > connect it to our fileserver. It's a Pentium running Linux, kernel 2.2.14, > and it has an Adaptec 29160 (this one has an external 68-pin LVD connector), Ok, I'll out myself: What's "LVD"? Other than that: I don't know

Re: IBM 7137 Disk Array

2000-03-08 Thread Joel Jaeggli
7137 is differential fast-wide. I would not connect it to any controller other than a differential controller(not lvd), or it's likely to smoke your scsi controller. joelja On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Pieckiel, Kevin A wrote: > Surely someone out there has played with an IBM 7137 disk array.

IBM 7137 Disk Array

2000-03-08 Thread Pieckiel, Kevin A
Surely someone out there has played with an IBM 7137 disk array. We have an IBM expansion rack 900 with two 7137 disk arrays installed. They were used at our district office and then given to us because they had no use for it. It used to be connected to an RS/6000 running AIX that we did NOT