Looking for a SCSI Disk duplicator that supports U160 & Fibre Channel

[LiQiCE]

I'm looking for a disk duplication system that will support both U160 drives and Fibre Channel drives. If adapters are needed I could deal with that too, or if there are two disk duplication systems, one that supports U160 and one that supports Fibre Channel drives that'd be fine too ... Just haven't been able to find anything that specifically supports Fibre Channel drives! I know you can easily get 50-pin to 68-pin to 80-pin adapters for SCSI drives, but I have no clue if they'll support Fibre Channel drives?

Also, for anyone thats dealt with disk duplication systems before ... We're trying to take a SUN image and copy it to multiple drives. SUN has a bad habit of putting the "cheapest vendor" at the time into their servers. We always get 73GB 15k drives, but sometimes they're from Fujitsu, sometimes they're from Seagate, and who knows what other vendors we may end up with. Will the disk duplicator work properly in this case, or would it bail if the drives aren't all exactly the same size?

Thanks for any help that you can provide!!!!

 

[sharkeeper]

You may want to give CSC a call.

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Cheers!

 

[LiQiCE]

Thanks! Looks pretty promising, but I dont know if their disk duplicator systems support Fibre Channel. I found out that the drives we have use 40-pin FCAL connectors. Haven't found anything that will convert from 40-pin FCAL to any sortof standard SCSI connection though. Will try to give them a call and see if they know. Their disk duplicator systems unfortunately only copy 1 disk to 1 disk too ... was hoping to be able to do 1 disk to multiple targets.

Anyone else have any suggestions?

 

[GoSharks]

ive never seen a fcal to scsi (or vice-versa) adapter...

 

[LiQiCE]

I called CSC and they said that they didn't know of a Disk to Disk duplicator that could do FCAL. I questioned him about the "SUPPORTS EVERY INTERFACE" claim on the website and he said that it supports all interfaces except FCAL ... Looks like I may need to buy a duplicator for the U160 80-pin SCA drives and then buy something else to do the FCAL disk duplication, maybe a cheap SUN Workstation and some sortof SUN Disk Array. If anyone has any other ideas, I'd appreciate it!

 

[sharkeeper]

We have done this in the past and found it was best to set up an old computer/server for this task.

Cheers!

 

[Gunbuster]

You could multicast ghost them over the network