[olug] IDing Sun parts on E3000

[IrishMASMS at olug.org]

I am beating my melon into the desk here, because I can not figure out two
bits of information on the Enterprise 3000 we now have in my office. I
have searched sunsolve.sun.com and Google with not one hit at all, or
nothing making any sense. Downloaded the manual & read though it – and
even RTFM was not successful.

The specifics on the box:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/E3000/E3000.html


First problem – storage
When the E3K box was given to my work, there were no hard drives given to
us, not even the plastic drive rails & mounting clip. Does anyone know
what the part number is for the plastic drive rails & mounting clip; or
have an alternate means of securely mounting drives into a Sun box like
this?

Second problem – what the hell are these cards with the fiber connections
for?
Connected to the I/O board there are two cards connected in Sbus slots 1 &
2 (SSBus slot 0 is the video). Both cards have a fiber connection, with
what looks like a SC connector. I tried searching on everything that
looked like a part number with no success. How do I figure out if these
are Fiber Channel or Ethernet/network cards?

Aarrgghh!!!!! =(


The frustrated Irishman