[Info-vax] P410 on DS10/DS15

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 10/6/2020 1:34 PM, Rod Regier wrote:
> Lucky fellow.
> 
> No such apparent options on the RX2600. (Optical drive bay is a dedicated slimline).  No Molex power to "steal".  Only way I can figure out to readily provision 3+ 2.5 SATA SSD drives on an RX2600 is to use an *external* standalone SATA 2.5 multi-bay enclosure with it's own power supply.  That runs up the price fast :-(
> 
> On the RX2600 the 3x 3.5 80P SCSI drive cage sheet metal is riveted in place.
> 

Yep.  I noticed that when working with my ZX6000 which is basically an RX2600 in a tower case.  When I was attempting to do the P410 configuration on it I had to supply power with an external brick that happened to have a molex connector.  Definitely not handy.  It's one thing that convinced me to get the Proliant ML110 to do the configuration as it was so much more convenient.

The only way I can see to do SATA on the RX2600/2620/ZX6000 is a Smart Array card with an external port such as a P600 and an external disk enclosure as you mentioned.

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John H. Reinhardt