Sun Microsystems Blade 1500 - External Peripherals; TABLE 16-3 Conditions for Attaching External Peripherals

Chapter 16 Customizing Your System 16-5
16.3 External Peripherals
The Sun Blade 1500 workstation supports external Sun peripherals. TABLE 16-3 lists
peripherals and their conditions of use.
512 MB DIMM Install in pairs(DIMM0 and DIMM1, DIMM2 and
DIMM3).
“Installing DIMMs” on page 11-7
120 GB hard drive First drive installs in HDD0 (upper bay),
second drive installs in HDD1 (lower bay).
Drives are set as “Cable Select.”
Note: Internal drive mirroring is not
supported.
“Installing the Hard Drive” on
page 12-6
DVD-+RW drive Removable media drive is installed into lower
bay and replaces optical drive.
Drive is set as “Master.”
“Replacing the Optical Drive” on
page 12-9
DDS-4 tape drive Tape drive is installed into lower bay and
replaces optical drive. Internal SCSI
connection to SCSI host adapter.
Configuration checked with Single-Ended
Ultra/Wide SCSI PCI adapter. See condition
in
TABLE 16-1.
“Replacing the Optical Drive” on
page 12-9
TABLE 16-3 Conditions for Attaching External Peripherals
Peripheral Product Conditions for Use
Fibre channel hard
drives
Sun StorEdge T3 Array There are no special conditions for use.
Sun Multipack FC-AL Only supported with the Dual Loop PCI FC-AL Host Adapter.
Loop with Multipack FC-AL is Multipack FC-AL exclusive.
Sun StorEdge A5x00 Only supported with the Dual Loop PCI FC-AL Host Adapter.
Loop with Sun StorEdge A5x00 is Sun StorEdge A5x00
exclusive.
SCSI hard drives Sun Multipack SCSI SunSwift PCI host adapters used in conjunction with
Multipack SCSI units containing Fujitsu drives having
MAA/MAB series identifiers might cause read/write errors.
Sun StorEdge A1000 There are no special conditions for use.
Sun StorEdge D1000 Sun StorEdge D1000 drive assemblies cannot be daisy-
chained.
TABLE 16-2 Sun Blade 1500 Internal Component Upgrades (Continued)
Component Conditions for Installation Procedure